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Good code is not really a hiring criteria. It's just the price of entry. Hiring criteria for startup programmers: 1) can you work with others ...or are you
by fookyong 16y ago
Good code is not really a hiring criteria. It's just the price of entry.
Hiring criteria for startup programmers:
1) can you work with others
...or are you the comic book expert from the Simpsons
2) can you ship
...can you be happy with a duct-tape solution, even if it's not perfect
3) do you care about customers
...everyone in a startup needs to be hyper-aware of customers and obsessed with getting more. the last thing a startup needs is a "tell me what needs to be built" programmer.
- AmberShah 16y agoI don't disagree, but if that's truly all of your hiring critera, then you need to be willing to wait a long time and pay a lot of money. And that's personally the way I'd go. What I find is that a lot of people say they want all that, and then when they can't find it, or can't find it for the amount of money they want to pay, coding requirements is one of the first thing that gets lowered, instead of the other areas.