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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Someone who has some background in software engineering and is qualified to write production code without much supervision, although they probably arent designing anything. This person will be expected to learn the software development lifecycle practices, methods, conventions, and standards of the computer industry.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

In retrospect, it seems totally natural that Larry Ellison transformed Software Development Labs from a consulting business into a software company called Oracle. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet. How was that possible?