http://colinsteele.org/2010/01/hiring-badass-programmers-or-at-least-trying-to/ Travails of a CTO Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:25:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://colinsteele.org/2010/01/hiring-badass-programmers-or-at-least-trying-to/comment-page-1/#comment-4025 Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » How to hire programmers Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:25:23 +0000 http://colinsteele.org/?p=104#comment-4025 [...] Colin Steele writes about hiring programmers and asking them to show a code sample: Since I’ve long viewed the practice of programming as a craft, I’ve tried to apply the notion of a portfolio, a gimmick I learned from my boss back at AOL. A good programmer should have a body of work, which can be shown, and in it you will find strong clues as to the type of programmer they are. So unless I’ve worked with someone before, directly, along with references and resumes, I ask them to provide: [...] [...] Colin Steele writes about hiring programmers and asking them to show a code sample: Since I’ve long viewed the practice of programming as a craft, I’ve tried to apply the notion of a portfolio, a gimmick I learned from my boss back at AOL. A good programmer should have a body of work, which can be shown, and in it you will find strong clues as to the type of programmer they are. So unless I’ve worked with someone before, directly, along with references and resumes, I ask them to provide: [...]

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