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Hiring Juniors

Hiring Juniors

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

Ryan Bigg

April 27, 2016
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  1. Juniors

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  2. 1. The “D” word

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  3. Back in my day…

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  4. Present Day

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  5. “When is my bug
    going to be fixed?”

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  6. “We are hiring a senior
    Rails developer”
    - literally every company

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  7. The Ruby Senior Talent Pool

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  10. ‼You’re building
    CRUD apps ‼

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  13. 2. Contributing back

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  14. “But what do we get back?”

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  15. “But what do we get back?”
    “We have earned so much”

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  16. It’s OK to hire
    non-senior
    developers.

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  20. “But what if they leave?”

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  21. 3. Finding Juniors

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  22. Code Academies

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  24. Other Juniors

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  27. 4. Mentorship

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  28. Ruby Hack Night

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  29. Foster a learning
    environment

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  30. No “dumb” questions

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  31. Pairing builds confidence

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  32. Reinforce knowledge

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  34. Autonomy

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  35. Encourage code reviews

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  37. Maslow’s Hierarchy

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  38. It’s OK to hire
    non-senior
    developers.

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  39. Invest back in the
    community.

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  40. Hire and
    mentor
    a junior.

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  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

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