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What I might look for in different levels of hires
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| Jr. Programmer | |
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| Languages | |
| - Has a language she wants to master | |
| - Can read, describe basic program flow given a code sample | |
| - Can write basic elements of a program | |
| - Knows the basic building blocks, terminology of the language | |
| - Has idea of other popular languages that might complement this language | |
| Work Ethic / Culture fit | |
| - Pragmatic | |
| - Responsible | |
| - Asks questions | |
| - A sponge, excited to learn anything and everything | |
| - Interested in how-to, not necessarily why? | |
| Continuous Learning | |
| - Reads books, blogs | |
| - Can follow recipes or tutorials to use new libraries, features | |
| Other Characteristics | |
| - Understands, can describe 3-tier architecture | |
| - Knows what "clients" are, can name a few | |
| - Understands basic logic: t/f, && || ! | |
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| Mid Engineer | |
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| Languages | |
| - Learning a new language/framework a year | |
| - Can lead projects in at least 1 language | |
| - Knows enough of each language in stack to localize bugs (html, js, sql, ruby?) | |
| Work Ethic / Culture fit | |
| - Open-minded but forming opinions | |
| - Interested in how-to and why | |
| - Knows, approximately, where to find answers to questions | |
| - Interested in learning current "best practices" | |
| Continuous Learning | |
| - Learning a new language/framework a year | |
| - Reads books, blogs, or attends meetups, online courses | |
| - Can follow recipes, tutorials | |
| - Learns by exploratory code, reading source, documentation | |
| Other Characteristics | |
| - Understands fullstack architecture(s) | |
| - Can sense code smells, when something doesn't look right, knows refactoring | |
| - Can identify abstractions | |
| - Decent testing experience | |
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| Sr. Engineer | |
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| Languages | |
| - Knows how to learn a new language | |
| - What questions to ask | |
| - What needs to be learned to accomplish task at hand | |
| - Can lead projects from "git init" to "live" | |
| Work Ethic / Culture fit | |
| - Mentors the less experienced | |
| - Learns from the more experienced | |
| - Pushes team | |
| - Leads where necessary | |
| - Makes self available wherever possible | |
| - Deep-dives on problems to understand root cause where applicable | |
| - Keeps current with industry "best practices" | |
| - Fun to be around (you might come into the office just to work with him) | |
| Continuous Learning | |
| - Active in meetups | |
| - Subscribes to newsletters, watches videos, online courses, etc | |
| - Active on IRC channels, USENet/other groups, active blogger | |
| Other Characteristics | |
| - Can mentor on software development lifecycle | |
| - Asks hard questions about caching, scaling, security, etc, when deploying | |
| - Understands atomic units of computers and considers them in development: memory, cpu, processes, etc | |
| - Data structures, algorithm knowledge | |
| - Knows what she doesn't know | |
| - Assimilates data | |
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| Bonus points for: | |
| - contributing/maintaining open-source libraries | |
| - conference talks | |
| - writing books | |
| - any activity that pushes ideas, debate forward |
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