Dear author of Coders At Work,
Your book looks promising and it would be great to read about the best in the field and how they do their jobs,
however as a programmer I know you have to deal with the flipsides such as deadlines, server downtimes, unscheduled
working hours and at times you depend on many other people's work in order to do your own work .. eg systems have to be
running, internet has to be accesible and so on...
Have you asked, during your interviews, about how the developers deal with these topics or are they only complete
success stories ? :-)