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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. At the heart of the matter is scarcity of resources. The results. Undergraduate GPA.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. In such a case youll have the right to use it, but not to decompile or distribute it and probably youll pay a license amount for it.

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

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. Obviously not.