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Every time that I’ve ever come to myEclipse site you have a job posting for a Senior Eclipse Developer. I don’t get the Plano Tribune, but have considered posting a Junior Eclipse Developer job? Maybe if you got a few young guns in house you could send your senior guys out on training gigs. Criminy, the fact that y’all haven’t put out your own GEF book, let alone a Eclipse dev series, just boggles my mind. You obviously have so much Eclipse dev knowledge that you should/could have so many other ways to make money.
Every time that I’ve ever come to myEclipse site you have a job posting for a Senior Eclipse Developer.
That’s because we’re always on the lookout for really great developers to add to our team.
I don’t get the Plano Tribune, but have considered posting a Junior Eclipse Developer job?
We have, but there are a couple of problems with hiring junior developers. First, we work as a distributed team, with developers located in various spots around the US as well as other areas of the globe. Given that, we can only hire people that are truly driven and self-motivated. It also makes it more difficult to mentor a junior developer. Second, we move really fast here adding features to a product that we sell at a super price point. If we were to hire people that could immediately contribute to team productivity, we’d have to sacrifice some senior developer time to help them, thus decreasing our delivery rate. Third, junior developers naturally make more mistakes or poor assumptions than senior developers so there could also be an adverse effect on product quality. Given all that, we’d rather just pay for the talent we need. 🙂
Maybe if you got a few young guns in house you could send your senior guys out on training gigs.
We actually plan to hire some senior training guys that do training. Training well requires a different set of skills than developing well and few people have both sets. A great trainer is often a great developer, but it’s not required. As there are many great developers that couldn’t be good trainers. We’re actually looking for senior trainers right now.
Criminy, the fact that y’all haven’t put out your own GEF book, let alone a Eclipse dev series, just boggles my mind. You obviously have so much Eclipse dev knowledge that you should/could have so many other ways to make money.
A few of us looked in to writing books a couple years ago. The problem is that for every book sold the author gets $1-$2. It’s just not a very effective way to use one’s time to maximize corporate value since books take so long to write and publish. There are lots of reasons to write them, but making money isn’t really one of them. We’re a small company so we can’t follow through on every idea we get; we have to prioritize them based on how much they help us satisfy our customers and provide corporate longevity. 🙂
