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Doctor, Lawyer, Poker Player, Physicist: The Best Engineers We're Not Hiring
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| Doctor, Lawyer, Poker Player, Physicist: The Best Engineers We're Not Hiring | |
| ABSTRACT: | |
| _"The team needs more engineers and we need them today."_ | |
| We talk about the engineer shortage. But the problem is not what we think it is. We'll explore how hiring for only CS degrees misses exceptional opportunities. Unconventional backgrounds breed great developers. | |
| Homogeneity boxes us in. Diverse teams are more productive, more profitable, and more excited about what they're accomplishing. Diversity isn't just demographics. It's about benefitting from distinctly varied perspectives. Who better than the former philosopher, marine biologist, stage hand, or anthropologist? In this talk, we'll walk through why it's worth competing for them. | |
| Forget the rock star; hire the opera singer. |
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My intent there is to dog-whistle the cliche of everyone wanting to hire a "rock star". It didn't come across, then?
"Opera singer" is literal. I know a very committed and hirable dev whose pre-tech background is as an opera singer.
Ditto for people referenced in the talk title.