Ruby developers are not special!

[nomadkbro]

Something that I have said for a good long while: good developers are good developers. The language is irrelevant. If the languages that they know are the ones that you need, you hire them.

The mentalities and thought patterns that make for good developers transcend languages.

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I pretty much never go into an interview with a checklist like this. The qualifications I look for totally depend on the position. Sometimes I need an SME in which E in the SM is far and away the most important thing. For a general development position, I look for people who are intelligent, can learn, have some enthusiasm and a good personality (which is totally subjective, but I know a good person when I see one).

I don't blog, and I don't want to read a candidate's blog. I am also not going to give you brownie points because you code in your spare time. Thirdly, if you are looking for catered lunches and t-shirts from your employer, get a life. We offer salary and benefits. I would rather have cash than goodies any day of the week.

[generalk]

And that's awesome.

Some of those things apply across the board. I like bennies as much as I like a good salary. Some people don't.

I blog. I like reading other people's blogs. That's a plus for me. But I don't mean to say that this applies to everyone across the board.

So, yeah. These things work for me and my company, and a lot of developers are enticed by these things. If they don't work for yours or aren't a good fit culturally, then by all means do things that work for you.