I am semi-management myself, having direct yes-or-no over who works with me and under me. I am one of the principals of a small startup company, and the two founders being the CEO and the CTO have been convinced of the value of hiring what we call 95% people.
Because we are so small, and because we are solving really hard problems in our products that no one else in the world has solved, we need people that are capable of solving any problem that we throw at them.
Yes, there is room for specialization, and some of the problems that we solve are specialized. But what is needed is Programming Ability and Being Very Smart and Being Driven.
Currently, we use Python, Ruby and Clojure. I am personally fairly language agnostic, but use Python for my particular projects. The two people that I have hired directly are able to handle tasks such as writing a Windows kernel debugger from scratch, writing a userland library that can manipulate NTFS volumes directly, or do expert system analysis on classifications of data.
These are all projects that we have completed and continue work on. These are not projects that can be classified as being familiar with any language or another, but to borrow a word from Heinlein, require grokking computing at a deep level.
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Date: 2011-11-04 03:01 pm (UTC)Because we are so small, and because we are solving really hard problems in our products that no one else in the world has solved, we need people that are capable of solving any problem that we throw at them.
Yes, there is room for specialization, and some of the problems that we solve are specialized. But what is needed is Programming Ability and Being Very Smart and Being Driven.
Currently, we use Python, Ruby and Clojure. I am personally fairly language agnostic, but use Python for my particular projects. The two people that I have hired directly are able to handle tasks such as writing a Windows kernel debugger from scratch, writing a userland library that can manipulate NTFS volumes directly, or do expert system analysis on classifications of data.
These are all projects that we have completed and continue work on. These are not projects that can be classified as being familiar with any language or another, but to borrow a word from Heinlein, require grokking computing at a deep level.