Product Description
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 as productive as 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. You’ll
learn:
- How to create a pipeline of excellent developers using internships—and why this is not optional
- How to build a workplace where the best programmers want to work
- The secrets to reading resumes, interviewing technical people, and deciding when to make an offer
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.
About the Author
Joel Spolsky is a globally
recognized expert on the software development process. His web site
Joel on Software (www.joelonsoftware.com) is popular with software
developers around the world and has been translated into over 30
languages. As the founder of Fog Creek Software in New York City, he
created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software
teams. Joel has worked at Microsoft, where he designed VBA as a member
of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, developing an Internet
client used by millions. He has written two books:
User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001) and
Joel on Software
(Apress, 2004). Joel holds a bachelor's of science degree from Yale in
computer science. Before college, he served in the Israeli Defense
Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz
Hanaton.
- Hardcover: 182 pages
- Publisher: Apress (May 31, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1590598385
- ISBN-13: 978-1590598382
