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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

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My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. What’s in demand? and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. There is this delusion that certification in a computer language or vendor technology (Microsoft etc) equates to mastery of the art of programming itself.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

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For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. At the time, I was a die-heard Java zealot. and going into a long diatribe about how insecure the ActiveX architecture was compared to Javas pristine sandbox. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak. I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective.