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In 2007, I was hired as a senior web developer at the local events search engine Zvents. On my first day, not more than 15 minutes after entering the office as an employee for the first time, the CEO asked me, “Are you our new rockstar developer?”
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Tyler, J. (2015). The Myth of the Ninja Rockstar Developer. In: Building Great Software Engineering Teams. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1133-5_6
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