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Well that video is something... If you want to take HR advice from a 28 year old... who's only hired a handful of people in his short career. Good luck! Most

Well that video is something... If you want to take HR advice from a 28 year old... who's only hired a handful of people in his short career. Good luck! Most corporate developers use C or C++, and yes C# and never truck code to Git. I'd never use Git for my code repository, there are much more stable products out there that have better security. As for not using windows? Hmm... I 2 iterations of windows and ubuntu on my laptop and can boot in any of them depending on what I'm doing. 75% of the world uses Windows and if you're not working in the end users environment then how are you developing? He left out reddit, even heavily edited its a good source of info. Ruby is dying and python is taught in every decent CS program. PHP, js and even asp are very good depending on what is being done. I would steer clear of any "employer" using these type of "heuristics" for hiring. A good employer knows that the tools don't make a craftsman... I don't care if a guy's never seen the inside of a git fork... I'd rather have him know how gc works in java on windows.

nmikz 12y ago
Thanks for that insight. (I read your post about hiring the truck driver. I dont think many recruiters would do such a thing but I admire your decision at that time.)
- jesusmichael 12y ago
  Well. I've been a CTO of a company that had 1200 employees and 80 of them were mine. I probably hired more developers in one year than that guy has in his life. I really never gave a shit or two about what OS my developer had on his laptop. Since he probably had what worked for him in his personal space. I had development groups with project managers they called the shots with the producers and stakeholders on what tools were to be used in the project. If we were working on a webservice that interfaced with a product that was on a Windows server... Then most likely windows knowledge was a +. In my opinion, most good developers know their way around several OSs and languages. They are just tools so they have an understanding of the tools they need for the job. I personally don't know that many programmers that work in OS X. Linux on the desktop/lap is fairly new, so if a guy has a windows box at home. It wouldn't bother me one bit. This cat is full of himself and his puny company. There's a 100 guys on here with better advice.
  - jesusmichael 12y ago
    * FULL DISCLOSURE * The "Truck Driver" was also a harvey mudd grad school dropout, who had a serious aptitude for math. He wasn't Bubba with a pocket donut... He was trying to make ends meet at the time and I gave him a chance.
    - kjs3 12y ago
      On of the best Lisp programmer I ever picked up was a musician, who wasn't getting enough gigs. Had an advanced degree in Math from Carnegie Mellon, so I said "see if you can wrap your head around this and let's talk". Rest is history.

nmikz 12y ago

Thanks for that insight. (I read your post about hiring the truck driver. I dont think many recruiters would do such a thing but I admire your decision at that time.)

jesusmichael 12y ago
Well. I've been a CTO of a company that had 1200 employees and 80 of them were mine. I probably hired more developers in one year than that guy has in his life. I really never gave a shit or two about what OS my developer had on his laptop. Since he probably had what worked for him in his personal space. I had development groups with project managers they called the shots with the producers and stakeholders on what tools were to be used in the project. If we were working on a webservice that interfaced with a product that was on a Windows server... Then most likely windows knowledge was a +. In my opinion, most good developers know their way around several OSs and languages. They are just tools so they have an understanding of the tools they need for the job. I personally don't know that many programmers that work in OS X. Linux on the desktop/lap is fairly new, so if a guy has a windows box at home. It wouldn't bother me one bit. This cat is full of himself and his puny company. There's a 100 guys on here with better advice.
- jesusmichael 12y ago
  * FULL DISCLOSURE * The "Truck Driver" was also a harvey mudd grad school dropout, who had a serious aptitude for math. He wasn't Bubba with a pocket donut... He was trying to make ends meet at the time and I gave him a chance.
  - kjs3 12y ago
    On of the best Lisp programmer I ever picked up was a musician, who wasn't getting enough gigs. Had an advanced degree in Math from Carnegie Mellon, so I said "see if you can wrap your head around this and let's talk". Rest is history.