Hiring Hipster Software Developers, a Practical Guide

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by BenjaminCoe • 14 years ago

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I thought it would be worth talking about some of the steps we take at my company to foster a workplace attractive to today's urban-hipster-software-developer.

superMilkChan• 14 years ago

what does your barista do? dev ops? do you ever get your dev ops and sysadmin mixed up? how many fixies do you have?

AdamMeghji• 14 years ago

While not exactly a Barista, our bootstrapped startup invested in a DeLonghi EC702 15-Bar-Pump Espresso Maker for approx $175 USD on Amazon.com. We'd usually make Starbucks runs and spend $2.50/trip once or twice a day, so it didn't take long to pay itself back.

But more importantly, it's been a fun for us developers to try and hack our little entry-level espresso maker into pulling the best cup possible. Toying with the variables that go in to pulling a tasty espresso (quality of grinds, grind fineness, tamping, duration of pull, etc.) has become an on-going project here, and our espresso rituals are now baked in to our culture.

So yeah, definitely recommend "hiring a barista", even if it's just a DeLonghi EC702 15-Bar-Pump Espresso Maker.

Hiring Hipster Software Developers, a Practical Guide

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