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Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
 
 

Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent [Kindle Edition]

Joel Spolsky
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A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent.

  • A comprehensive system for hiring top–notch technical employees
  • Packed with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous style
  • Learn how to find great people—and get them to work for you—in an afternoon!

The top software developers are ten times more productive than average developers. Ten times. You can’t afford not to hire them. But if you haven’t been reading Joel Spolsky’s books or blog, you probably don’t know how to find them and make them want to work for you.

In this brief book, Joel reveals all his secrets—from his years at Microsoft, and as the co–founder of Fog Creek Software—for recruiting the best developers in the world.

If you’ve ever wondered what you should be looking for in a resume, if you’ve ever struggled to decide whether to hire someone at the end of an interview, or if you’re wondering why you can’t find great programmers, stop everything and read this book.

Table of Contents

  1. Hitting the High Notes
  2. Finding Great Developers
  3. A Field Guide to Developers
  4. Sorting Resumes
  5. The Phone Screen
  6. The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
  7. Fixing Suboptimal Teams

About the Author

Joel Spolsky is a globally-recognized expert on the software development process. His website Joel on Software (www.joelonsoftware.com) is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over thirty languages. As the foun

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1337 KB
  • Print Length: 182 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (1 Jun 2007)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B001CSLK62
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #80,545 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Insightful 2 July 2007
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A short book, well written and easy to read.

Full of common sense, good ideas and insights on how to recruit and keep the best technical people (and why you want to).

Buy two copies, and give one to your manager.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It's fantastic when you buy a book and you discover a lot more than what you're expecting from It! It's not only a nice title for HR people but It's a good tool to help yourself in being real and pragmatic in every choice you do in building your career and curriculum. Take the book read It more than one time, It's useful and fresh !
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is great advice for techies or managers involved in recruiting software engineers. Having done this myself for 10 years, I can only agree with most of what Joel says here. He quickly dismisses the "trick question" style of technical interviewing, and provides practical advice not only in how to recruit, but how to retain.

A great, quick guide to an often overlooked area.
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