Building a better company
Another good piece from Joel on Software, talking about getting good people and doing good work, rather than trying to be that one company in a thousand that comes up with an idea no-one else has ever thought of. As for hiring staff with good working conditions, what can I say; the Company is based in Edinburgh! What else do you need! 🙂 Oh well, okay then, I’ll buy dinner for the staff. But no dessert. And you fill up on breadsticks or poppadums, right?
July 26th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
Good article.
I would think it’s very hard to get really good programmers, since you don’t know if they’re good until they’ve worked at the Company for a while. Unless you’ve got a stellar interview process.
And by that I’m not saying I’m really good, or even just good. I know plenty of mistakes I’ve made at previous employers, but I do give a crap about the end software quality.
Also, many people just don’t *love* software like they need to (is that weird?) to write good code, and are just there for the ego of working in games.
July 26th, 2005 at 2:31 pm
“Also, many people just don’t *love* software like they need to (is that weird?)”
Weird? Well, I wouldn’t use it as a first line in trying to pick up chicks. 😉
July 27th, 2005 at 10:16 am
I dunno, the “I like blowing things up in space-ships” line worked for me…