Re: [GD-General] what you look for in a coder...

[Noel L. <nl...@co...>]

On Monday 07 June 2004 02:56 am, Richard Fabian wrote:
> so my question is: what do you guys consider important
> when hiring a coder?

Personally, one of the main things I look for is whether they're learning new 
things on their own. People who don't learn anything new usually either feel 
they have nothing to learn (uh, oh!) or they're not motivated enough to look 
beyond their assigned tasks.

But probably the one single, biggest thing I'm looking for is whether they can 
work as part of a team. A guy can be the best "coder" in the world, but if he 
can't work well with the rest of the team is going to be pretty useless. A 
lot of this is just gut feeling and it requires that personalities "click" 
together.

Once you have those two basis covered, the rest is relatively easy stuff. 
Specific knowledge of languages and APIs comes by pretty easily (remember, 
they're willing to learn new things). 


--Noel
Games from Within
http://www.gamesfromwithin.com