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# HOW TO : Identify good talent
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/how-to-identify-good-talent/
- Published: 2012-03-28T03:32:39.000Z
- Updated: 2012-03-28T03:32:39.000Z
- Description: In the fortune magazine, there is a section (and for the life of me.. I cannot seem to find it online and I just cleared my...
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- Tags: HOWTO, Management, Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

In the [fortune magazine](http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/?ref=kudithipudi.org), there is a section (and for the life of me.. I cannot seem to find it online and I just cleared my dining table of all the back issues of the magazine 🙁 ) on how business leaders see trends in real life and than make judgements on where the economy is headed. For example, if someone sees a starbucks they visit regularly become more busier than normal, that person judges that the economy is doing well.

I judge good talent (think sysadmin, dba, programmer, application engineer etc) in a somewhat similar fashion. I should note that this system is not perfect, but it seems to have worked out more than not for me so far. I judge their talent based on what browser and how they use it.

**THE BEST**

Ever see a person who has multiple browsers (not tabs) open and is doing a specialized task in each one of them? Their home screen is usually set to a specialized search engine ([blekko](http://blekko.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org), [duckduckgo](http://www.duckduckgo.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org), [wolframalpha](http://www.wolframalpha.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org)) and they have add-ons that block ads and show them a variety of information of the site they visit. These are usually the best folks to have on your team. These are the folks that you want your systems designed by.

**THE GOOD**

This group tends to either use [firefox](http://www.firefox.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org) or [chrome](http://www.chrome.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org). Has Google as their home-page and know how to use multiple tabs. Yeah.. sorry, I a browser discriminator :). Since there can only be a few rock stars in the world, you should consider yourselves lucky if most of the members in your team belong to this group.

**THE REST**

Ever see someone, whose homepage looks like Google but is not.. And has a bunch of “toolbars” that take up 1/3rd of the screen. And has popups showing up randomly? Yep.. these are the folks you don’t want touching your code. Even with a 10 foot pole.. no sir.. Having these folks move to firefox and/or chrome doesn’t help the situation either :).