[LRUG] What do people want to do with their career?

Jon Wood jon at blankpad.net
Thu Mar 22 02:41:34 PDT 2012


We're following what you've called "the Eden way" at Hubbub. Anyone half competent can learn a new language and its accompanying frameworks given a month or so to get up to speed, but someone without the mindset and passion for building software is never going to be a great developer.

On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 06:47, Anthony Green wrote:

> 
> I'm continually disappointed by the quality of the recruitment 
> offerings. All of which pretty much reduce the posting "to we want a 
> code monkey of type Foo with skills x, y and z"
> 
> I always admired Eden and Chris Parson's holistic belief when taking on 
> staff. For BBC Future Media, the security of our income model means 
> there's occasionally room for individuals who share those same values to 
> try and emulate Chris' approach.
> 
> Is it economic uncertainty that means companies don't follow the Eden 
> way or just a lack of maturity in our industry?
> 
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> Anthony Green
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> BBC Future Media
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