How to Hire a Front-End Web Developer

The following is an email exchange I had with a friend at another company about a year ago. We were talking about the best way to go about hiring a front-end developer, and I was sharing some tips from our hiring process.

“Hi Scott, we are in need of a CSS expert/ninja. Our company has gone through agencies and the whatnot, but the candidates that have come from that route haven’t exactly knocked our socks off. I’m hoping that since this is what you do you might know some people, have some advice, or know some agencies that specialize in this area.”

I’ll tell you how we found Libby, our other CSS rockstar.

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Maybe You Should Sit Outside

So I walk into my speech class this morning and the prof starts handing back the tests, sees me and goes “Oh, we’re going to go over the test now, so maybe you should sit outside for a few minutes?”

What the hell? You’re not letting me take the dumb test, bitch, why should I sit outside? (I say as much out loud, minus the profanity, which I save up all day for my hatelife journal) and she gives me an exasperated look and goes “Well, whatever.”

I’m sick of school. I’m beyond ready to not have to do this crap anymore.