[LRUG] Juniors

[Brendan Murphy]

+1 rudy :-)

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On 21 May 2014, at 20:52, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I got my first job, I'd only ever hacked stuff together.
> 
> I'd made a blog in php, and done a bit of hacky C for maths coursework in Uni,
> but I had no idea of real world development.
> 
> I went for an interview, and I coded pseudo c++ on a white board, and talked vaguely about polymorphism and other stuff a friend had prepped me on.
> 
> They gave me the job, but told me to "go away for 2 months and learn Rails"
> 
> And I did.
> 
> Sitting in my room reading why's poignant guide, and Agile web development with Rails, I thought I knew what development was.
> 
> But starting on my first day I had throw that out of the window.
> 
> Real world development is different, of course.
> 
> Graduates of General Assembly and their like may only have had 12 weeks training, but it's practical, and broad, and they learn TDD.
> 
> Don't hire the bad ones, but the good ones you should grab, before they turn on you and demand a daily rate.
> 
> Everyone has to start somewhere!
> 
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