[LRUG] [JOBS] Looking for a Ruby developer

[Alan Buxton]

It’s worth also looking at what other professions do. Few lawyers would insist on you having a degree in law. Similarly for accountants etc. In fact many people in those professions would prefer that if you’re going to do a degree you do something in a different field. 

 

In an interview for my first ever job as a programmer the director who headed the division told me that in his view classically-trained musicians make the best software engineers. I can’t remember the details now but it sounded very plausible at the time. So interesting to see your comments, Rory.

 

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From: Chat [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On Behalf Of Rory Sinclair
Sent: 06 June 2014 11:32
To: Scott Matthewman
Cc: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: Re: [LRUG] [JOBS] Looking for a Ruby developer

 

Hi Scott,

 

I think the point everyone is trying to make - with varying degrees of subtlety - is that your original ad stipulated a degree in CS, SE or related subject, which Bronwyn and yourself then contradicted.  I think the take-away is to omit that from job ads in future, if you genuinely feel that such a thing isn’t an absolute prerequisite.

 

To make sure I wasn’t being a Massive Hypocrite, I just checked our own job ads - we stipulate ‘degree educated’, since we prefer people who have been to university, though we don’t require that degree to be in anything specific.  (In fact, our most senior engineer has a degree in Music).  In light of recent discussions, we may remove this stipulation entirely, however, or reword it to make it clear that a degree would be seen as a plus, not a requirement.

 

Best of luck with the hiring!

 

Regards

 

-- 

Rory Sinclair

Head of Technology

ASMALLWORLD

 

On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 10:18, Scott Matthewman wrote:

Can I just say that, as Lead Developer here at evvnt, I promise to *never* hold anyone's university qualifications, lack thereof or otherwise, against them should they be awesome enough to come join our team.

 

Unless they diss my taste in music. Then the gloves are off. :-)

 

Seriously, if anybody's interested and wants to find out a little more about our dev platform and how it's growing in more detail, I had hoped to be at Monday's LRUG meeting. Unfortunately I have a scheduling conflict which means I can't now make it, but I'm accessible both at this email address and at scott at evvnt.com instead.

 

Cheers

 

Scott




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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Matthew Ford <matt at bitzesty.com> wrote:



> " so I can't say why people, in general, have it as a requirement on job adverts." 

 

Perhaps you should write your own ads then rather than copying others *cough cough*

 

-Matt


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