# Job Opportunity **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 9, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-opportunity/125489 "2008-01-09T16:16:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madisonrose)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-opportunity/125489/1 "2008-01-09T16:16:55Z")
ATTENTION ALL RUBY ROCKSTARS: We are an IT Infrastructure company working with a client of ours in CAMBRIDGE, MA who is seeking an experienced Ruby on Rails Developer to work on-site at their location. The company is seeking to hire this individual as soon as possible, so please act quickly! If you or someone you may know is interested in this opportunity, please contact Melissa at US Edge today. I can be reached at 781 843 4411 ext 214 or via email removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Please include resume and salary requirements to all email submittals as well as contact information. A GREAT opportunity to work with a cutting edge company who embraces new technology and make a significant contribution! Information and Job Description below! CONTRACT Position: Ruby on Rails Developer Location: Cambridge, MA (sorry no remote contractors at this time) Pay Rate: Market Length: Contract to Hire Summary: Immediate need for Ruby on Rails Developer. Company rewriting web app with ruby on rails and are publishing the framework as they go forward. Primary Skill: Deep understanding of ruby on rails and at least one rails application deployment. Job Description: Company has already written arguably the best control plug-in to date (which they’re open sourcing), and their rails application will be first in the very conservative and demanding financial sector. Must be revved up about web technologies-have solid understanding of ruby on rails and have at least one rails deployment. Be capable of reading/writing complex SQL statements. Must have some experience with CSS, JavaScript and AJAX. Should love writing tests for your code (TDD anyone)? General all around intelligence and experience in the financial industry gets you in the bonus round. THE BIG SHABANG: An amazing opportunity to work in a rapidly expanding and exciting startup culture with relatively little structure and lots of opportunity/ responsibility. ARE YOU A RUBY ROCKSTAR? WELL GET READY TO ROCK!!! ---
**Author:** ![madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madisonrose)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-opportunity/125489/2 "2008-01-09T16:25:44Z")
Nice hype… but I’m not sure about the rockstar angle being applicable to computer programmers like us. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madisonrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-opportunity/125489/3 "2008-01-10T00:45:59Z")
Job advertisements need to have less buzzwords and to be more varied. I’m sure there’s a great conspiracy going on where there’s this job ad template where people just paste in around about 5 words to make it look slightly different. Here’s what caught my eye 1. (BAD) Rockstar. I’m only good at guitar when it’s attached to a console. 2. (GOOD) Experienced Ruby on Rails Developer, gets the point out quickly. 3. (BAD) A GREAT opportunity to work with a _cutting edge \* company who embraces new technology and makes a_ significant contribution. \*Buzzwords gather in this sentence like teen girls in a Justin Timberlake concert. Less buzzwords. This is the crap people who look for jobs read every day. The “new technology” you’re using is probably something we’ve already heard of… 2 years ago. 4. (GOOD) “Position: Ruby on Rails Developer”. From this point onwards, the top half’s statements have been reiterated. Any details I would’ve found in the top half (and read if I had any interest in the job) are now repeated so I can read them again! 5. (BAD) “Company has written arguably the best”, “arguably”, “ARGUABLY”! Does this mean that it might not be the best? Also, it’s not named anywhere. Why should we believe you, a company that we’ve never heard of, about that your product is “arguably” the “best”? Link us to some websites, fax us some of your trophies and maybe we might start believing you. 6. (NEUTRAL) This is a long one: Must be revved up about web technologies _makes revving noise_ understanding of ruby on rails and have at least one rails deployment. 2 years experience and one successful deployment. Shame I’m not in the US. Be capable of reading/writing complex SQL statements. SELECT \* FROM `job_advertisements` WHERE `effort` = ‘Awesome’ AND `readability` = ‘Worthy’ I could get more complex, but most of the SQL stuff Rails does for you. Must have some experience with CSS, JavaScript and AJAX. body { font:12pt Arial; margin:0px; background:url(‘images/background.jpg’) repeat-x #00ff00; } $(‘email’).hide Ajax.Updater(‘element’, ‘/url’, { :asynchronous: true, }) Should love writing tests for your code (TDD anyone)? Love writing them, still twitch when I see one break. General all around intelligence IQ rated at a 154… by an internet IQ test. That must mean I’m smart, right? and experience in the financial industry I’m awesome with money. I can do the one thing many people have trouble with: save. THE BIG SHABANG: Is that anything like “#!”? An amazing opportunity to work in a rapidly expanding and exciting startup culture with relatively little structure and lots of opportunity/ responsibility. ARE YOU A RUBY ROCKSTAR? WELL GET READY TO ROCK!!! I’m not a Rockstar, I’m a Rock God. Thank you, I’m here all day. – Ryan B. > **[frozenplague.net](http://www.frozenplague.net)** > > This domain may be for sale! Feel free to add me to MSN and/or GTalk as this email. ---
**Author:** ![madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madisonrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-opportunity/125489/4 "2008-01-10T00:54:07Z")
Nicely done! ---
**Author:** ![madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@madisonrose](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madisonrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-opportunity/125489/5 "2008-01-10T01:08:48Z")
> 1. (BAD) Rockstar. I’m only good at guitar when it’s attached to a console. What about pirates? Ninjas? Jedis? I’m so confused about what to look for these days… do they want groupies, or an eye patch, or a frigging light saber!?!?! _sigh_ 1. (BAD) “We are revolutionizing the social networking space”. No. No you are not. It’s simply not possible considering the number of offers that use that phrase. 🙂