[LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)

[Duncan Stuart]

I studied Maths and CompSci at Oxford about 10 years ago - gave me a great
grounding in certain principles but IN NO WAY prepared me to be a developer
in the real world (nor was it really supposed to). I left uni as an
idealist without having written a line of code in any language actually
used outside academia. Any pragmatism/process/good programming practice
which I've learned has all been on the job. Oxford grads can make great
*analysts* out of the box, but if you want one to be a lead tech you'd
better be sure that they were accomplished programmers before they started
their course, or be prepared to spend a good few years moulding them into a
real-world dev.

Caveat: maybe everything has changed since my day.


On 17 April 2013 16:57, Gerhard Lazu <gerhard at lazu.co.uk> wrote:

> One of the most disappointing applicants that I have ever interviewed was a
> D.Phil. in Computer Science from Oxford. Smart as a button, pragmatic as
> that red brick that you've mentioned.
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> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Chris McGourty <chrism at boxworld.co.uk>wrote:
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>> Developer should ideally be a computer science grad from a red brick/
>> Oxbridge uni.
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