Mr Leong 梁先生

Students are graduating in May, I have been interviewing many fresh grad for the past few weeks. Usually the master students have some working experience but bachelor students do not.

When I am evaluating a candidate, I mainly look for passion in software development, experience/knowledge is secondary, I do not care much about the academic result. Being good academically does not make you a good software developer. After all, most of the subjects learned in school are not applicable in our daily work.

I do not want people whom are just looking for a job. Passionate developers enjoy what they are doing. They will have desire to do the best and constantly improve their skills without being told to do so. Saying things like “I am keen in learning new technology”, “I am passionate in programming”, “I love software development” does not differentiate you from 90% of the other candidates. These are just can answers to my questions. Don’t say it, show it! If you have not even download the Android SDK and run the Hello World app, please don’t say “I have a strong interested in Android.”

If a person is passionate about guitar, he/she will frequently play guitar during spare time, even if this is not required by school coursework. That is why I like to ask “Have you ever developed any application that is not required by your school/work?” during interview.

Stream Media is looking for passionate developers! If you are one, you may send me an resume .