Really an amazing article!
I was reading it basically to know where good employers search for great developers/employees, but it is written the other way around: it is written for employers to find great developers.
It is well written, gives nice insights, simply great!
So if you have a company or someday decide to do a startup and want to be successful by employing great employees, I would definitely recommend you to take a look at that article. As it was written in 2006, in my opinion its beginning might not be totally true with today's market circumstances after the crisis, but the 3 methods (Go to the mountain, Internships and Build your own community) that he explains later on about how to find and employ great developers are simply amazingly written.
Joel Spolsky is the co-founder of "Fog Creek Software" in New York and this post is from his "Joel on Software" blog.
Let me know your opinion about his methods!
Finding Great Developers by Joel Spolsky on Joel on Software
I was reading it basically to know where good employers search for great developers/employees, but it is written the other way around: it is written for employers to find great developers.
It is well written, gives nice insights, simply great!
So if you have a company or someday decide to do a startup and want to be successful by employing great employees, I would definitely recommend you to take a look at that article. As it was written in 2006, in my opinion its beginning might not be totally true with today's market circumstances after the crisis, but the 3 methods (Go to the mountain, Internships and Build your own community) that he explains later on about how to find and employ great developers are simply amazingly written.
Joel Spolsky is the co-founder of "Fog Creek Software" in New York and this post is from his "Joel on Software" blog.
Let me know your opinion about his methods!
Finding Great Developers by Joel Spolsky on Joel on Software
