Booting Up: Hiring and Growing Boot Camp Graduates

Slides for my RailsConf 2016 talk on hiring and growing boot camp graduates.

Transcript

1. Booting Up Hiring and Growing Boot Camp Graduates # Eric Weinstein # RailsConf 2016 # Kansas City, MO # 4 May 2016
2. Part 0: Hello
3. About Me eric_weinstein = { employer: 'Hulu', git_hub: 'ericqweinstein', twitter: 'ericqweinstein', website: 'ericweinste.in' } 30% off with RAILSCONF2016!
4. Where Are We Going? • The One Big Mistake We Keep Making • A Survey of the Field • What We Should Be Looking For • Believe in Improvement • A Holistic Model for Continual Growth
5. Part 1: Hiring
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8. Ye Olde Traditione • Computing Science • Graphs && trees • Whiteboarding • Java/C++
9. That One Big Mistake I Mentioned We confused “Is this person good at what they do?” with “Is this person good at computing science?”
10. A Survey of the Field
11. What These Students Learn • Hint: not computing science! • Curricula vary a bit from boot camp to boot camp, but we can speak in meaningful generalities • Server-side web development (Ruby/Rails) • Client-side web development (JavaScript) • Software development tools (git, deployment, &c)
12. What I Look For • Ability to write nontrivial programs • Adaptability to new and changing requirements • Ability to work well with others • Passionate about learning • Self-awareness • Interviews != performance: http://bit.ly/1xQBfud
13. We’re Hiring!
14. Part 2: Growing
15. First: You Can Grow The belief that you can improve your abilities results in better performance than if you believe you either “have it” or you don’t. “Is Math a Gift? Beliefs That Put Females at Risk” (Carol S. Dweck, Stanford) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Ibid.)
16. Talkception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZmNfhPPOs https://speakerdeck.com/vosechu/building-technical-education-programs
17. The Plan • You don’t have to know everything • Start Monday • Lightning talks • Workshops/Lunch & learns • Accountabilibuddies
18. You Don’t Have to Know Everything • You literally can’t, anyway • Teaching someone something is an ideal way to learn it • The destination is for tomorrow; focus on today
19. Start Monday
20. ⚡ Talks • Technical, nontechnical, in-house, meetups, conferences: the sky’s the limit • Remember: teaching something is a great way to learn it!
21. Workshops/Lunch & Learns • Git: https://gist.github.com/ericqweinstein/ f124d779ea23347b2216 • ES6: https://gist.github.com/ericqweinstein/ b8dea7cbb5b6aa4ecf6b • FP: https://gist.github.com/ericqweinstein/ d8cb53cf8d0f31fb19b6 • Data Structures & Algorithms for the Web: https:// gist.github.com/ericqweinstein/380d6cc719b0a03cfef3
22. Accountabilibuddies Credit: South Park, “Cartman Sucks”
23. TL;DPA • Write down who you’re actually looking for • Believe in improvement • Be the change you want to see in the company
25. Questions? eric.weinstein@hulu.com github.com/ericqweinstein @ericqweinstein ericweinste.in 30% off with RAILSCONF2016!