One thing that programmers like are decently formatted reports that present the information in a meaningful and elegant manner.
Sadly this is none of those things.
Results of Joel Spolsky's "What Programmers Want" Survey
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#12I'm shocked at how many people are in start ups - does that perhaps reflect the fact that if your a start up you're typically building your own tools from scratch in areas you're less familiar with, so perhaps need access to experts you don't have locally (i.e. in your company)?
The breakdown for start up/small business isn't great. We have less than 25 people but the company has been around for 17 years.
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#14If an employer were to take anything away from this survey, I'd say it should be the last question. Way too often have I been interviewed by monotonous and unorganized people who misrepresent an otherwise great position.
Please. When performing interviews, try and get people who both like what they're doing and are organized.
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#15I hate being in the "other" slice. Look at it.
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#16I'm shocked at how many people are in start ups - does that perhaps reflect the fact that if your a start up you're typically building your own tools from scratch in areas you're less familiar with, so perhaps need access to experts you don't have locally (i.e. in your company)?
Remember also that the respondant pool is biased.
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#17I found the "would you take a 10% paycut" matched my experience precisely. Back when I worked at Microsoft on developer tools, I would sometimes get contacted by people who were in the finance industry with salaries 2-4x what we could offer, and often transitioning from some nice CTO/Chief Head Architect title to Software Design Engineer.
But, universally, they were _excited_ for the opportunity to work on real compilers, tools, etc. and especially to be surrounded by people they could learn from. I'm would expect the lurking Google hiring managers have experienced the same thing.
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#18Easy browser viewing https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://blog.stackoverflow....
HN automatically adds a Scribd link to any PDF submission. Why not just use that?
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#19One thing that programmers like are decently formatted reports that present the information in a meaningful and elegant manner. Sadly this is none of those things.
What, you don't love charts and graphs fresh from Excel 95? With text so crisp, it could have gone through a brand new fax machine?
Edit: Apologies, that wasn't meant to be so snarky.
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#20The raw data is available here: http://s.tk/wpwraw