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Smart and Get Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent View Larger Image | Joel Spolsky
Apress, Hardcover, Published May 2007, 200 pages, ISBN 1590598385 | List Price: $16.99
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Based on a series of articles originally published at Joel on Software, Smart
and Gets Things Done provides a complete guide to the process of attracting,
screening, recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and hiring top programmers.
It provides a complete system for hiring programmers, yet is concise. And it
features a humorous approach that won’t be boring!
A “good” programmer can outproduce five, ten, and sometimes more
run-of-the-mill programmers. The secret to success for any software company
then is to hire the good programmers. But how do you do that? How do you recognize
a good programmer? How do you even define “good”? These are questions
the software industry has struggled with for decades. Managers and others involved
in hiring programmers are constantly faced with the dilemma of trying to divine
talent for programming based on their perception of a candidate’s talent
for interviewing and socialization. The result? All too often this leads to
hiring a good talker rather than a good programmer.
In Smart and Gets Things Done, Joel Spolsky draws from his experience
of both working at Microsoft and running his own successful software company
based in New York City. Joel writes humorously, but seriously, about his methods
for sorting resumes, for finding great candidates, and for interviewing—in
person and by phone. Joel’s methods are not complex, but they do get to
the heart of the matter: how to recognize a great developer when you see one.
- Joel Spolsky is the #1-ranked blogger in the technical space and is widely
quoted even in the mainstream media (for example, Smart Money and the Wall
Street Journal).
- Joel is well-known in his field, notably because of his Joelonsoftware.com
web site.
- He has a large and devoted following, and all his previous books have been
best-sellers with backlist appeal.
About the Author
Joel Spolsky is a globally recognized expert on the software development process.
His web site Joel on Software (www.joelonsoftware.com) is popular with software
developers around the world and has been translated into over 30 languages.
As the founder of Fog Creek Software in New York City, he created FogBugz, a
popular project management system for software teams. Joel has worked at Microsoft,
where he designed VBA as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services,
developing an Internet client used by millions. He has written two books: User
Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001) and Joel on Software
(Apress, 2004). Joel holds a bachelor’s of science degree from Yale in
computer science. Before college, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as
a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton.
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