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A Field Guide to Developers

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Unfortunately, you can advertise in all the right places, have a fantastic internship program, and interview all you want, but if the great programmers don’t want to work for you, they ain’t gonna come work for you. So this section will serve as a kind of field guide to developers: what they’re looking for, what they like and dislike in a workplace, and what it’s going to take to be a top choice for top developers.

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(2007). A Field Guide to Developers. In: Smart and Gets Things Done. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0254-7_3

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