May
14
SMART AND GETS THINGS DONE: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
- Microsoft hiring rule - “Smart, and Gets Things Done.”
- Fog Creek hiring rule - “Not a jerk.”
- Let the top recruits pick their own project
- Managing your corporate brand is just as important for recruiting as it is for marketing.
- Great developers have enough choices of places to work that only require the usual cover letter/resume application to get started; by inventing artificial hoops and programming tests and whatnot simply to apply, you’re just as likely to scare away good programmers as weak programmers.
- Don’t look for experience with particular technologies except team lead.
- Some developers are not very good at writing their own code, but are brilliant debuggers.
- Some developers are sort of dreamy. They spend more time surfing the Internet and downloading the latest tools to try out while their code goes unwritten.
- Metrics don’t measure, they also screw up perfectly happy, productive teams.
- Firing underperformers doesn’t always hurt morale.
- Management methods
• The Command and Control Method
• The Econ 101 Method
• The Identity Method
