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

[Chris McGourty]

Thank you guys - I have several other tech guys involved who should be able
to suss them out. requirement is that they are smart, balanced, go-getting
etc . C

 

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From: Duncan Stuart [mailto:dgmstuart at gmail.com] 
Sent: 17 April 2013 17:32
To: Gerhard Lazu; Chris McGourty
Cc: chat at lists.lrug.org
Subject: Re: [LRUG] [JOBS] - Ruby Programmer Wanted FT/PT to join funded
startup as lead tech/ CTO (urgent)

 

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.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Chris McGourty <chrism at boxworld.co.uk>
wrote:

Developer should ideally be a computer science grad from a red brick/
Oxbridge uni.






 

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