Smart and Gets Things Done

Posted on 17 August 2018 by Joel Spolsky

A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent.A comprehensive system for hiring top notch technical employees Packed with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous style Learn how to find great people and get them to work for you in an afternoon The top software developers are ten times productive than average developers Ten times You can t afford not to hire them But if you haven t been reading Joel Spolsky s books or blog, you probably don t know how to find them and make them want to work for you.In this brief book, Joel reveals all his secrets from his years at Microsoft, and as the co founder of Fog Creek Software for recruiting the best developers in the world.If you ve ever wondered what you should be looking for in a resume, if you ve ever struggled to decide whether to hire someone at the end of an interview, or if you re wondering why you can t find great programmers, stop everything and read this book. Download Smart and Gets Things Done By Joel Spolsky – kino-fada.fr This is a very quick read on how to hire programmers It s full of insights and interesting thoughts from someone who has been in the trenches of being a programmer and hiring programmers for years, who has succeeded at both tasks, and who has thought deeply about why He has great points on how to find programmers hint job boards don t work and how to build an environment where programmers can be productive For those reasons, it s worth reading However, while I respect Spolsky and have fol This is a very quick read on how to hire programmers It s full of insights and interesting thoughts from someone who has been in the trenches of being a programmer and hiring programmers for years, who has succeeded at both tasks, and who has thought deeply about why He has great points on how to find programmers hint job boards don t work and how to build an environment where programmers can be productive For those reasons, it s worth reading However, while I respect Spolsky and have followed his blog for years, I don t agree with a number of k...Joel is one of the best guys on the internet if you want to have read about software business, and this book follow the same quality.Things change fast in software The book was wrote before the Continuous Delivery got on the mouth of everyb...This book proposed that if you have the Best Working Conditions you get the Best Programmers to develop the Best Software which results in Profit The preface for this is the the quality of the work and the amount of time spent are simply uncorrelated Productivity is 5 to 1 or 10 to 1 between programmers You can t afford to be number two, or to have a good enough product It has t..., ,, .The one thing that this book taught me for sure is that I wouldn t ever get a job at Fog Creek author s company The book is from 2007, which means it is pretty old as for software development world standards and some of the advice is deprecated However, I found most of the stuff at least enjoyable and informative It is probably one single book that virtually every HR person and manager that would like to hire developers should read mostly because it is a really quick read and provides The one thing that this book taught me for sure is that I wouldn t ever get a job at Fog Creek author s company The book is from 2007, which means it is pretty old as for software development world standards and some of the advice is deprecated However, I found most of the stuff at least enjoyable and informative It is probably on...My expectations were quite different for that book When I read Smart and gets things done , I was like Cool, I will learn a way to judge which people are smart and will work hard Nothing of the sort The book shows you the most extensive practices to hire the best 0.00001% of programmers Yeah, thanks for that I mean, it s good to know and strive for it, but unfortunately not a lot of companies can do that, just because it s not always up to the employees.It s still a good book, but probab My expectations were quite different for that book When I read Smart and gets things done , I was like Cool, I will learn a way to jud...A great read with helpful advice for anyone who needs to hire or manage software engineers The only real downside to the book is that, to a large extent, it assumes you make cool stuff, your company strongly supports the software developers, and that you already have at least a few rock stars ...It soundedlike an advertisement of FogCreek However, it did have some interesting highlights for managers and recruiters.I wonder the author used to hire such smart people and still FogCreek end up developing products like FogBugzThis guy knows his shit Some parts are outdated though Chuzpe includedSome good key points here, works as a good starting point or a refresher It is over 10yrs old though, which does need bearing in mind

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17 August 2018

Joel Spolsky