We're not lowering the bar on who we hire. Process + skill = lots gets done. I was up and running my first day and released code my first week. Work and requirements are decomposed and estimated as a team so when it's time to code it flows quickly and everybody is on the same page.
The only change to our hiring expectations is to open up to great developers that don't already have Ruby/Rails skills. Aside from that, we are working on the big hiring push as a creative engineering problem. I'm on the team doing the push and we've been given lots of freedom, resources (both time and money), and responsibility. And there are many. Ore initiatives that promise the same opportunity.
I'll call bullshit, even though that will score me downvotes.
We're not lowering the bar on who we hire.
Good luck hiring 100 top guys in 8 Months.
Work and requirements are decomposed and estimated as a team so when it's time to code it flows quickly and everybody is on the same page.
That's so detached from reality, sometimes I wonder if there's some parallel universe where phrases like that make any sense.
What these hiring frenzies really do is they transform any company from being (possibly) productive straight into eBay-mode. They're also usually a surefire indicator that the last person with a clue (alt: the last person who gave a shit) has just left the company.
The only change to our hiring expectations is to open up to great developers that don't already have Ruby/Rails skills. Aside from that, we are working on the big hiring push as a creative engineering problem. I'm on the team doing the push and we've been given lots of freedom, resources (both time and money), and responsibility. And there are many. Ore initiatives that promise the same opportunity.