How do you keep up with technology?
One of my favorite interview questions is, “How do you keep up with technology?” The answer to this question shows a lot about a candidate. Do they use down time at work to read up on the recent blogs? Are they asking for new assignments to stretch their skillsets? What about the thought leaders are in the space – are they connected?
But we do have to face that there are more new technologies and news about technology than anyone could possibly read about in a day. In my chosen slice of technology, what is a small slice of open source databases, there seems to be a new major database every 6 months. That’s not even counting feature updates, security bugs, and the broad ecosystem around databases. My inbox has been full to overflowing of invitations to review, attend conferences, notice this hot new feature in a top technology, etc.