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You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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Ruby the programming language wasn't developed by DHH. It was developed by Matz ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29 ). Second sentence, first paragraph. Also, the guy was replying to a Craigslist ad. I'm not really sure what he was expecting.

Well it's obvious to me that he meant Ruby on Rails.

Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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Unless you signed a not disclosure document during the hiring process, I would have revealed the company name. It's time to point out this faulty processes, especially on company that have public stakeholders. Employees are often the most important assets, therefore the way you hire is crucial. If you get it wrong from begin with you can't expect much.

Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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if you are looking for a Senior PHP programmer or an algorithmic trading programmer let me know That is a very unusual mix of skills. Very unusual indeed.

I have similar experience. I've been doing algo trading for a decade, but out of interest I came up with a side project. It's a web service that uses django, with phone apps written for Android and iOS.

There's a certain trepidation to learning a new stack, but if you've done one you can do another.

Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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post #12

Unless you signed a not disclosure document during the hiring process, I would have revealed the company name. It's time to point out this faulty processes, especially on company that have public stakeholders. Employees are often the most important assets, therefore the way you hire is crucial. If you get it wrong from begin with you can't expect much.

He did reveal the name. It's in the pic at the bottom of the post.

Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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post #12

Unless you signed a not disclosure document during the hiring process, I would have revealed the company name. It's time to point out this faulty processes, especially on company that have public stakeholders. Employees are often the most important assets, therefore the way you hire is crucial. If you get it wrong from begin with you can't expect much.

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Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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post #12

Unless you signed a not disclosure document during the hiring process, I would have revealed the company name. It's time to point out this faulty processes, especially on company that have public stakeholders. Employees are often the most important assets, therefore the way you hire is crucial. If you get it wrong from begin with you can't expect much.

They are called Dolphin Micro http://www.dolphinmicro.com/

Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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All this tells me is they didn't want to say why they rejected you, lack of a required experience is a benign excuse.

The reality might be you were too old, too young, too smart, too stupid, wrong race, looked like the guy who ran off with the managers wife, who knows.

I would never expect to learn anything from a job rejection, or for that matter from a lost sale.

Re: You cannot have more than 10 years of experience in Rails

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It's possible that the email meant 10+ years of collective experience between those 2 developers, but then it would be a bizarre detail to include (especially given the brevity of the email). Still, it sounds based on the interview details like they didn't bother to put someone technical on the phone interview, which makes me reluctant to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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