A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent. A comprehensive system for hiring top notch technical employeesPacked with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous styleLearn how to find great people#151;and get them to work for you#151;in an afternoon! The top software developers are ten times more productive than average developers. Ten times. You can#151;t affordnotto hire them. But if you haven#151;t been readingJoel Spolsky#151;s books or blog, you probably don#151;t know how to find them and make them want to work foryou. In this brief book, Joel reveals all his secrets#151;from his years at Microsoft, and as the co founder of Fog Creek Software#151;for recruiting the best developers in the world. If you#151;ve ever wondered what you should be looking for in a resume, if you#151;ve ever struggled to decide whether to hire someone at the end of an interview, or if you#151;re wondering why you can#151;t find great programmers, stop everything andread this book. | Smart and Gets Things Done by Avram Joel Spolsky, Paperback | Indigo Chapters