Thanks to all who commented, I learnt a lot from just reading the comments.

I love SimCity, never forget the first time I played it on an Amiga 500.

Then one day my friend lent me his 512KB ram upgrade and it was a different game :-)

I love locust.io and looking at the features that this adds, I look forward to adding it to my toolbox.

It actually produces the exact opposite, my observation from experience is:

Some people will now work the system and want to be made redundant, by doing the minimum possible.

Good people will leave for other opportunities.

This takes months/years to fix/heal. The fixing process is reset every time you do a new round of lay offs.

Anyone who uses Grafana to monitor their home setup, thats +1 from me.

Appreciate the commitment and dedication to detail.

You'll love https://mods.factorio.com/mod/graftorio2

Really appreciate this! great food for thought and highlights the answer is often ... "it depends!" :-)

highly recommend that podcast too!

No need to apologise, a polite "I ran X which solves Y" related to the post is encouraged. Helps the rest of us learn about other solutions out there :-)

Will checkout OpenContext, thanks for the link

I've found that candidates have little or non appetite for take home problems.

If they are busy interviewing, putting aside 2-3 hours (which is not much really) per interview, limits how many they are willing to do per week. As its still a candidate driven market.

Keep in mind, people have to find the spare time while doing their jobs and living life. If they have a family - good luck finding spare time :-)

The best win/win I've found is to pair with someone for about 30 minutes. You help each other, just like you do in real life.

Its called "Instant Messaging" :-) So I think the expectation is built into the name, even if you don't agree.

I would have to disagree. To me "Instant Messaging" != "Instant Answering". It's only a guarantee that the message is delivered instantly.

And unfortunately there is an implicit expectation that the reply is to be sent immediately as well.

Start with disabling auto away :)