Passion, Communication and Professionalism
I just updated our job description. After we announced our job offer we got some really good feedback. I talked to some Ruby Developers and i realized what i good developer toolbox should be:
Passion.
The be better then our competitors, to reach our goals, to grow and learn, we need passion.
Professionalism / Rationalism
Professionalism is the needed power to balance passion. Just passion can be blind and wrong used. Programmers like to dig a whole into the ground and loose their mind in it. That’s what people call hunting a bug or fixing a problem. But it sounds not good to me. Passion turns into possession.
Communication
The third important ability is communication. If i don’t get the feeling i can communicate open and directly to a person, how can i trust a person? We are a growing team, with passionate and very different personalities. To work and learn successfully as a team together, we need to be able to understand each other, to jump the gap between us.
This is a big topic and i am just at the surface of it. Hopefully better then nothing. Comments are very appreciated!!
We are hiring - updated!
Just a short note, a reminder, we still are looking for good ruby developers for all the cool stuff to come out of our engineering rooms. You can find more details on our job page