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Hiring Juniors

These slides accompany most blog post here: http://ryanbigg.com/2016/04/hiring-juniors/

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April 27, 2016

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Transcript

  1. Juniors

  2. 1. The “D” word

  3. Back in my day…

  4. Present Day

  5. “When is my bug going to be fixed?”

  6. “We are hiring a senior Rails developer” - literally every

    company

  7. The Ruby Senior Talent Pool

  8. None
  9. None

  10. ‼You’re building CRUD apps ‼

  11. None
  12. None

  13. 2. Contributing back

  14. “But what do we get back?”

  15. “But what do we get back?” “We have earned so

    much”

  16. It’s OK to hire non-senior developers.

  17. None
  18. None

  19. ( ( <

  20. “But what if they leave?”

  21. 3. Finding Juniors

  22. Code Academies

  23. None

  24. Other Juniors

  25. None
  26. None

  27. 4. Mentorship

  28. Ruby Hack Night

  29. Foster a learning environment

  30. No “dumb” questions

  31. Pairing builds confidence

  32. Reinforce knowledge

  33. None

  34. Autonomy

  35. Encourage code reviews

  36. None

  37. Maslow’s Hierarchy

  38. It’s OK to hire non-senior developers.

  39. Invest back in the community.

  40. Hire and mentor a junior.

  41. Dave Hoover’s Windy City Rails talk: https://www.windycityrails.com/videos/2014/#16 Julia Claven’s graph:

    http://juliaclavien.tumblr.com/post/140738533238/new-hires- from-liability-to-hopefully-asset