Is indeed difficult.
Our employees are our assets. In fact, human resources are our *only* assets.
Hiring a very experienced engineer is difficult. So we resort to CREATE stellar engineer out of talented person.
As long as the person has strong academic background, has some work experience, willing to sweat and bleed, and has a strong desire to learn, we are gonna HIRE this person.
We then nurture, give rigorous training. The cutoff time is three months. If by three months, this person is still not performing as expected, he’s out. But so far, every hire is a success !
So we CREATE, not really FIND, talented people.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
hi, i have been reading your blogs. This post mentions a similar problem i am facing within my company. I own a small web development firm and not very succcessful with freshers. Can you tell me what sort of training should be given to freshers?
just to let you know, we are into .net developement and recently swtiched to RoR.
Thanks in advance.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 am
Hi,
We have a specification document for our getting-up-to-speed application. This application will have some basic features that will cover the important aspects of RoR.
So for freshers, we give out that specification and told them to build the app. That’ll give them real practice.
In the meantime, we also give regular training sessions for them, covering the Rails book (and more advanced books after that). They need to read the training material upfront at home before going to each of the training sessions.
I think those are basically how we train up our people… Feel free to suggest! Thank you