Comments on: Need Rails Developers ? 9 reasons to Hire from India http://vinsol.com/blog/2009/02/23/need-rails-developers-9-reasons-to-hire-from-india/ Ruby Rails Services Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Coming2india http://vinsol.com/blog/2009/02/23/need-rails-developers-9-reasons-to-hire-from-india/comment-page-1/#comment-49818 Coming2india Fri, 08 May 2009 12:29:18 +0000 http://vinsol.com/?p=519#comment-49818 Good post, But I am being driven crazy with rails developers in India, <br>There are so many of them (with 4 yrs of degree + 2-3 years of experience) but cant demonstrate any impressive ruby/rails skills? How do you find productive developers? <br><br>Damn, every time I ask an Indian Developer , How does your work day look like or how much do you actually work in a day. Most of them reply to me saying they work 10 - 13 hrs a day and its all their coding time. I have never seen any good developer being able to spend more than 6hrs a day, because software craft is a creative job that exhaust your energies soon. <br><br>Why would I want to hire people who are stressed out to the hell?. Good post, But I am being driven crazy with rails developers in India,
There are so many of them (with 4 yrs of degree + 2-3 years of experience) but cant demonstrate any impressive ruby/rails skills? How do you find productive developers?

Damn, every time I ask an Indian Developer , How does your work day look like or how much do you actually work in a day. Most of them reply to me saying they work 10 – 13 hrs a day and its all their coding time. I have never seen any good developer being able to spend more than 6hrs a day, because software craft is a creative job that exhaust your energies soon.

Why would I want to hire people who are stressed out to the hell?.

]]> By: kapil http://vinsol.com/blog/2009/02/23/need-rails-developers-9-reasons-to-hire-from-india/comment-page-1/#comment-43661 kapil Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:33:45 +0000 http://vinsol.com/?p=519#comment-43661 Hi coming2india, Thanks for the comments. Yes, its difficult to find good developers especially when there are lot of there. Also, there are some coding factories that just focus on number of hours and assembly line process not realizing other aspects of working with real people and software development. In my personal experience, spending 10 hours in office doesn't mean coding all the time. There are blogs, twitter, ruby IRC, knowledge sharing sessions and a lot of things that good developers spend time during their working hours. Its impossible to survive in software development if you are not a life long learner, taking adequate breaks and sharpening your skills. One question we usually ask during interviews is , what was the last fun project you do ? or Are you involved in some open source project ? what is your favorite blog ? This really helps us to filter people who are just "code producers" with somebody "passionate about self development and good code". Unfortunately, there are some coding factories here but you will find a very high rate of attrition in these companies. Good developers are always looking for fun working environment which understands their need as a developer, learner and a human being. Kapil Hi coming2india,

Thanks for the comments. Yes, its difficult to find good developers especially when there are lot of there. Also, there are some coding factories that just focus on number of hours and assembly line process not realizing other aspects of working with real people and software development.

In my personal experience, spending 10 hours in office doesn’t mean coding all the time. There are blogs, twitter, ruby IRC, knowledge sharing sessions and a lot of things that good developers spend time during their working hours. Its impossible to survive in software development if you are not a life long learner, taking adequate breaks and sharpening your skills.

One question we usually ask during interviews is , what was the last fun project you do ? or Are you involved in some open source project ? what is your favorite blog ? This really helps us to filter people who are just “code producers” with somebody “passionate about self development and good code”.

Unfortunately, there are some coding factories here but you will find a very high rate of attrition in these companies. Good developers are always looking for fun working environment which understands their need as a developer, learner and a human being.

Kapil

]]> By: Coming2india http://vinsol.com/blog/2009/02/23/need-rails-developers-9-reasons-to-hire-from-india/comment-page-1/#comment-43654 Coming2india Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:33:08 +0000 http://vinsol.com/?p=519#comment-43654 Good post, But I am being driven crazy with rails developers in India, There are so many of them (with 4 yrs of degree + 2-3 years of experience) but cant demonstrate any impressive ruby/rails skills? How do you find productive developers? Damn, every time I ask an Indian Developer , How does your work day look like or how much do you actually work in a day. Most of them reply to me saying they work 10 - 13 hrs a day and its all their coding time. I have never seen any good developer being able to spend more than 6hrs a day, because software craft is a creative job that exhaust your energies soon. Why would I want to hire people who are stressed out to the hell?. Good post, But I am being driven crazy with rails developers in India,
There are so many of them (with 4 yrs of degree + 2-3 years of experience) but cant demonstrate any impressive ruby/rails skills? How do you find productive developers?

Damn, every time I ask an Indian Developer , How does your work day look like or how much do you actually work in a day. Most of them reply to me saying they work 10 – 13 hrs a day and its all their coding time. I have never seen any good developer being able to spend more than 6hrs a day, because software craft is a creative job that exhaust your energies soon.

Why would I want to hire people who are stressed out to the hell?.

]]> By: Chetan Mittal http://vinsol.com/blog/2009/02/23/need-rails-developers-9-reasons-to-hire-from-india/comment-page-1/#comment-43126 Chetan Mittal Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:08:46 +0000 http://vinsol.com/?p=519#comment-43126 Nice post Manik. Whether Australians are beautiful or not .. we don't care. We just want our code to be beautiful. yay, geeky spirit. - Chetan. Nice post Manik.

Whether Australians are beautiful or not .. we don’t care. We just want our code to be beautiful. yay, geeky spirit.

- Chetan.

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