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Ryan Bigg
March 08, 2018
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Hiring Juniors
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The Future @ryanbigg
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Hire Juniors
HIRING SENIOR DEVELOPER (PLZ) ACTIVEMANTRA::REQUEST
nil ACTIVEMANTRA::RESPONSE
POODR
<SNIP>
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The Totally Scientific Pyramid of Skill v1 “Optimal Hiring Zone™”
Your next superstar developer lives here
Senior Ruby Developers
Juniors make teams BETTER
Skill-diversity outperforms homogeneity
Simpler Explanations Easier Understanding =
Things get Documented
Communication is Explicit
The most important developer skill Patience
Team building idea Hire a Junior
WE HIRED Juniors
Juniors Seb Jasmine Rebecca Lauren Angel Julie Namibia Ramya Jaime
Tiya
Me circa 2007
Junior Engineering Program Seb Jasmine Rebecca Lauren Angel Julie Namibia
Ramya Jaime Tiya Cohort #1
EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING
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HIRE Juniors
THE RATIO™ 4 seniors 1 junior
<obligatory JFK quote goes here>
Juniors make teams better!
FINDING Juniors
Dramatic Re-enactment
Jasmine Rebecca SCHOOLIES Jaime
SELF-TAUGHT Julie Namibia Ramya
INTERVIEWING Juniors
Treat them GENTLY Interviewing tip #1:
Give them FEEDBACK Interviewing tip #2:
Actionable Specific Kind Feedback rules: Feedback must be all of:
400+ pages Feedback given (7 pages / person)
Dramatic Re-enactment
Actionable Specific Kind Junior developer feedback rules
MENTORING Juniors
Do Don’t How to treat a junior developer
It is ALWAYS OK to ask questions
PAIR up ()
Do Don’t How to treat a junior developer
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SOLO runs
Pull Request REVIEWS
“ why are you doing this? ” ? ?
Actionable Specific Kind Junior developer feedback rules
Feeling WELCOME
Project: this guy
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Project Aristotle
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HIRING AND MENTORING JUNIOR DEVELOPERS ACTIVEMANTRA::V2::REQUEST
HIRING AND MENTORING JUNIOR DEVELOPERS ACTIVEMANTRA::V2::REQUEST Thoughts, Feedback, or Ques?ons?
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[email protected]
T: @ryanbigg ❤ Thanks! ❤