Best Ruby Developer, How to Hire Them

Hiring Rails full-time Rails developers is hard. Surging demand. You will likely fight other companies for every recruit. Freelance consulting rates are going through the roof.

Don’t use Monster.com or recruitment agencies. Use your feet instead; find out where Rails developers meet each other and go there. In San Francisco it’s the Ruby Meetups, in Toronto check out PubNite. WorkingWithRails.com can also be useful. If you must post to job boards, try 37 Signals and add your job posting to SimplyHired.

Avoid brand-name superstars. They will command massive salaries, sport huge egos, and ultimately not fully commit to your company. Better they gain notoriety through your projects.

A university degree is not important. I hate to say it-I’m personally a graduate from Canada’s highly-regarded Math/CS program at Waterloo-but several of the best Rails developers I know didn’t study computer science at all. Hire perpetually. You’ll find that I always have an open Rails developer position, because when demand outstrips supply, you should hire when you can.

What about those who have less experience? If people follow these rules then people like myself won’t ever get a chance. I’ve reached the limit of what I can learn in total isolation and I don’t have the time to do any extra development in my spare time. I don’t have a rails blog because I’m still very much learning and I don’t have anything extra to add that other rails developers haven’t said already.

Does someone have to become an expert in Rails before even having the opportunity to work with and learn from others? It reminds me of all the “junior developer posts” that asked for 6 months commercial experience in VB – like you can get that as a graduate. While I can see that for the ideal candidate I’d be interested in what you’d ask for for a junior developer.

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