You can’t have more than 10 years of experience on Rails!

This is why programmers dislike account people / business people…

So last week, I was selected for an interview for Sr. Web Developer. The job sounded interesting so I took time out of my day to have phone interview. I  noticed the organization  mostly programmed in Ruby on Rails, but then it said PHP and other languages and I was like okay.  See below for the description.

So the interview went fairly well, I really never address the issue Ruby on Rails, there was also some confusion as to Bootstrap.  According to the project manager Bootstrap is also responsive. (No kidding?) I said that’s great because I use Twitter Bootstrap and that is responsive as well. (I was playing games at that point) Then I was told they where not the same? I don’t know if that was the breaking point, but it was amusing.

Finally, I was  told I would get notification of the outcome of the interview. I think that is fair since I took time out of my day… a certain level of professionalism and courtesy. So I shot a quick email back just making an inquiry if there was a decision since I hadn’t heard anything. I received the following in an email.

Oh well, I will live to fight another day… But then I remember that I follow @DHH on twitter and Ruby is kind of new. (Just an FYI @DHH created Rudy and he did it ~10 years ago. I follow @DHH not because of Rails, mostly because of his libertarian oriented tweets, much like myself.)  So to amuse myself I asked him:

@dhh: Quick question: Based on my math +10 years, would be rare if not impossible? pic.twitter.com/OKWy4iPl5R

— Chad (@chad_strategic) August 26, 2014

He was kind of enough to reply:

@chad_strategic Both of those candidates are me! — DHH (@dhh) August 26, 2014

And there we have it…  I guess I was beaten out by the creator of Ruby on Rails. So if you are looking for a Senior PHP programmer or an algorithmic trading programmer let me know. In the mean time I will probably get in trouble for this at some point or not? But at the same time I needed a break from foreach loops!

Lead web developer. Love a challenge? Work from anywhere. $100k+ (Denver)

compensation: $100k+

• Do you stand out in a crowd of software engineers as the “go-to” person?
• Do you love inventing cutting-edge software systems that launch startups and help forward-thinking businesses grow exponentially?
• Can you architect, lead and build web development projects that require 2 to 4 programmers for a year or two at a time?
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If so, we should talk.

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We build mostly in Rails and Django, with the latest client side frameworks like Angular and Bootstrap. If you’ve been programming professionally for around a decade, have a few years of full stack web experience (Rails, Django, PHP, Java Spring, and similar), and love learning, you’ll be a great fit.

What we offer:

• Competitive benefits package, profit share and paid continuing education
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We continuously strive to make Dolphin Micro a great place to work–interesting enough to be a lifelong career and profitable enough that it’s the last job you’ll ever need.

We have a talented sales team that finds us cool clients and challenging projects, super smart developers that love working in small teams to invent and ship software, and business-savvy project managers that pave the way for our developers and get things done.

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Originally published on August 28, 2014 , on Strategic Options