Hiring Juniors

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

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
10. ‼You’re building CRUD apps ‼
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.
19. ( ( <
20. “But what if they leave?”
21. 3. Finding Juniors
22. Code Academies
24. Other Juniors
27. 4. Mentorship
28. Ruby Hack Night
29. Foster a learning environment
30. No “dumb” questions
31. Pairing builds confidence
32. Reinforce knowledge
34. Autonomy
35. Encourage code reviews
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