doctor, lawyer, poker player, physicist: the best engineers we're not competing to hire yet...
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"The team needs more engineers and we need them today."_ We talk about the engineer shortage. But the problem is not what we think it is. We'll explore how hiring for only CS degrees misses exceptional opportunities. Unconventional backgrounds breed great developers. Homogeneity boxes us in. Diverse teams are more productive, more profitable, and more excited about what they're accomplishing. Diversity isn't just demographics. It's about benefitting from distinctly varied perspectives. Who better than the former philosopher, marine biologist, stage hand, or anthropologist? In this talk, we'll walk through why it's worth competing for them. Forget the rock star; hire the opera singer.TRANSCRIPT
Doctor, Lawyer, Poker Player, Physicist.
The Best Engineers We’re Not Competing To Hire Yet.
Hello!@cczona
Doctor Lawyer Poker Player Physicist
Doctor Lawyer Poker Player Physicist
WANTED:
CS degreeWANTED:
–everybody, ever
“…or equivalent”• What does that mean?!
• Do we all agree?!
• Who is filtered out?!
• Does it get what we need?
The Best Engineers We’re Not Competing To Hire Yet.
Jim Weirich
Ruby Community’s CS Teacher-in-Chief
• Rake!
• RubyGems
Jacob Thornton
Bootstrap
English literature
!
!
“A computer is just a regular tool. !It allows you to communicate and do creative things…”
Fabien Potencier
Symfony
Entrepreurship
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Django
Literature!!
Journalist
“Ability to write/communicate effectively is responsible for my career. It’s a myth that ability to write tons of code is all that matters. Real teams need other skills too.”
Ryan Dahl
Node.js
Math
Ryan has unique ability that I rarely see in a Software Engineer. That is, to see things differently. I've seen Ryan question all kinds of things, how a database is written, or a parser, or a web server. He always seem to come up with a different way to look at a problem.
-Brock Whitten, Harp & PhoneGap
Ryan has unique ability that I rarely see in a Software Engineer. That is, to see things differently. I've seen Ryan question all kinds of things, how a database is written, or a parser, or a web server. He always seem to come up with a different way to look at a problem.
-Brock Whitten, Harp & PhoneGap
“WANTED: rock star”
“WANTED:!rock star”
“WANTED:!rock star”
“Type a quote here.”
Amitai Schlair
Degree in Music Team Lead & Developer !15 years
we hack code. and we hack people.
Kerri Miller
Stagehand, Lighting Designer, Set Construction, 12 years
Senior Software Developer !18 years
Eric Rasmussen
Call Center Ops, 6 years Degree in Psychology
Web and Backend Systems Developer
coding is analytical.
Stephan
Oceanographer, 4 years Graduate degree in Physics
Test manager!12 years
Joshua Ballanco
Biochemist, 12 years PhD in Computational Biochemistry
Software Developer!7.5 years
Dan
Degree in Molecular Biology & Degree in Computational Biochemistry
Senior Backend Developer!2 years
coding is a work ethic.
Nicholas Marrone
Police Officer, 8 years Degree in Japanese
Ruby engineer!1/2 year
coding is collaborative.
Allie Jones
Fine Arts / Weaving Developer!5 years
Blithe Rocher
PhD in Physical Chemistry 11 years
Rails intern!1 Year
coding is archaeological.
Diversity Types
Visible!•gender!•race!•age!!
Invisible !• class!• education!• life experiences
disrupt groupthink.
disrupt groupthink.
diversity, because
Danielle Sucher
Lawyer, 7 years Software Engineer
“culture fit” is fear of discomfort.
!
we need the discomfort.
–Joshua Ballanco
concepts into practice.
because money.
sales!profit
because, innovative.
creative!challenge thinking!
synthesize
because, rock stars noooooo.
disagreement can be visible!different approaches are evaluated
because, productive.
paradox: !
effectiveness and belief of effectiveness
–Joshua Ballanco
which skill set is important.
Leon Gersing
Actor/Writer/Director, 10 years Degree in Musical Theater
Software Developer!13 years
crave disruption.Hire for radically, crazy, implausibly, different.
thank you.
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Photo Credits• Whiteboard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/10690275616!
• Polizei http://www.flickr.com/photos/flik/2517171174!
• Fishing Boat http://www.flickr.com/photos/90369723@N00/8730902405!
• Weaving http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebees/7645824666!
• Spectography http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelphilabcenter/5999031935!
• Theater flatshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kjeik/4383928695!
• Volatile light workshop http://www.flickr.com/photos/110841637@N08/12831365224!
• Jacob Kaplan-Mosshttp://farm5.staticflickr.com/4029/4648185053_aa85c6d33b_o.jpg
• Light Boardhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/72955843@N00/3434919480!
• LinkedIn http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LinkedIn_logo_initials.png !
• Piano Keyshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dgoomany/4976245067!
• Computational Biology chainshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/libertasacademica/7290793400!
• Rotary Phonehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/5467650475!
• Rubber Duckshttp://www.paulandpartners.net/images/rubber_ducks.jpg!
• Diverse Stained Glass Faces http://www.mcgeorgecdo.com/2011/10/celebrate-pacific-mcgeorge-diversity.html!
• Justin Bieber http://gossipdavid.com/2012/06/15/justin-bieber-today-show-concert/