We can all dream, can’t we?
A FIELD GUIDE TO HIRING PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS - Joel Spolsky lays it out.
Unfortunately, you can advertise in all the right places, have a fantastic internship program, and interview all you want, but if the great programmers don’t want to work for you, they ain’t gonna come work for you. So this section will serve as a kind of field guide to [recruiting]developers: what they’re looking for, what they like and dislike in a workplace, and what it’s going to take to be a top choice for top developers.
I can confirm that after having worked on two side-by-side 20″ inch plasma displays at my previous job, the little 15″ LCD I now labor over seems like torture.
But what the heck, I’m just a contractor so the advice doesn’t really apply to me anyway. Even this tech tip from Computer Geeks TechTips leaves programmers off the list of those who can most benefit from the increasingly more economical configuration, citing the typical user, gamers, engineers, and business people like stock brokers and such. But not the lowly computer programmer who makes all that stuff possible.
Is that typical? Would a real computer geek leave himself off the list of those who would most benefit from a cool display ugrade. The CEO probably works in a cube over there Computer Geeks.