Job offers/positions and searching for Ruby developers.

rubyonrails-talk
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I wanted to ask the more senior members of the group whether job postings and the like are frowned-upon here. It's just a little difficult to find Ruby programmers in a general job searching.

Alternatively, if anyone knows of some good sites to hire full-time on- site RoR developers, I would appreciate any advice. Difficulty: small company, don't want to pay to trawl CareerBuilder and other such sites.

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I wanted to ask the more senior members of the group whether job postings and the like are frowned-upon here. It's just a little difficult to find Ruby programmers in a general job searching.

As far as I'm concerned, go ahead ! (within reason obviously; a
recruitment agency posting the same message everyday would be over the
top). No idea how good it is for that, but workingwithrails allows users to
flag themselves as 'available for hire'

Fred

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http://railspays.com/ (UK) http://jobs.37signals.com/

that's where I subscribe for job announcements.

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Clever Neologism wrote:

I wanted to ask the more senior members of the group whether job postings and the like are frowned-upon here. It's just a little difficult to find Ruby programmers in a general job searching.

Alternatively, if anyone knows of some good sites to hire full-time on- site RoR developers, I would appreciate any advice. Difficulty: small company, don't want to pay to trawl CareerBuilder and other such sites.

While there are certainly more of us than there were a couple of years ago, I think the numbers of Rails developers is still quite small compared to something like .Net or Flash or the like. I think that relative "scarcity" coupled with your belief that they need to be on-site is the root of your difficulty.

Here's to hoping that more and more hiring managers come to realize that programmers are typically not very good looking human beings; why do you want to look at them? To require them to show up in your building, in your city, is not good for them, and not good for you, and not good for the pretty people you have sitting around doing marketing and being receptionists, etc. :slight_smile:

Physical togetherness does not promote better software. Not long ago I was part of a rag-tag group of developers operating well as a team despite locations in four different time zones around the planet.

Please do yourself a favor and look into building a geographically dispersed but technologically connected group of development talent. We're out here, and we're easy to find, if you're not limiting your search to one city.

cheers, jp

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Jeff Pritchard wrote:

programmers are typically not very good looking human beings; why do you want to look at them?

Darn, I thought one of the pros of Ruby was better looking programmers.

http://flickr.com/photos/46457493@N00/230535210/

Tor Erik

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While there are certainly more of us than there were a couple of years ago, I think the numbers of Rails developers is still quite small compared to something like .Net or Flash or the like. I think that relative "scarcity" coupled with your belief that they need to be on-site is the root of your difficulty.

It is not a belief in the ideological sense, it is a necessity of our development model and our financial means, and the CEO's wishes.

Here's to hoping that more and more hiring managers come to realize that programmers are typically not very good looking human beings; why do you want to look at them?

Accountability, personal relationships, and easier flow of ideas.

Physical togetherness does not promote better software. Not long ago I was part of a rag-tag group of developers operating well as a team despite locations in four different time zones around the planet.

Not necessarily. However, pair programming, on-the-spot code reviews, and other programming practices I engage in pretty much necessitate it. Plus, it's much easier if you are an actual programmer with no management above you to handle a single person in real-time than spending 90% of your time reviewing other's work and simply acting as bookkeeper and specification clarifier (which is what I turned into, except for a critical part of the code no one outside the company was allowed to touch). I worked with a 10-person Ukrainian team before, and the code was OK, but at the end of it, we became dependent on them because we had no in-house programmers, and bad things ensued.

Please do yourself a favor and look into building a geographically dispersed but technologically connected group of development talent. We're out here, and we're easy to find, if you're not limiting your search to one city.

I have nothing against what you are saying. But when you don't have any venture capital (i.e. the company has to *gasp* actually earn what it pays out every month), it's tough to spend twice the money on a contract basis than for an in-house person.