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Programmer Competency Matrix

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Software Engineering. Also should be able to design operations support systems like monitoring, reporting, fail overs etc. Knows keyboard shortcuts for most used operations. Reads tech/programming/software engineering blogs and listens to podcasts regularly. Programming. Poor spelling and grammar.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

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Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., There’s not one ultimate way of operating, but you should know you team and ask them direct questions about how they learn and how they handle these types of things. Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.)

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

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Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

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Unfortunately, in the world of software engineering, that’s a very real risk. A great platform to consider is the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Technologies that run on the JVM gain instant access to a very wide range of technologies, and also let you switch the underlying operating system for even greater flexibility.

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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. I remember answering "What security model?"

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

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Now on to more operational considerations. You can find the latest and greatest Microsoft and Java certified developers here and indeed the entire consulting industry is built around certification. Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development?