Hire the funny guy

I have seen several posts about this topic, among them one from Joel Spolsky Exploding Offer Season and his article on Inc.com from a while back. And there are the re-occurring posts where bloggers ask their readers if anybody would be interested in coming to work for them. I started to think a little bit what good qualities you want in a Developer.

And I say hire the funny guy, and I don’t mean the guy that can tell 100k different jokes, I mean the guy that reacts to his environment in a funny / smart way. It takes creativity, knowledge, people skills and the ability to quickly find an answer to a problem, the basic skills you would want in a developer. So when you have a choice between two equally qualified developers, choose the funny one, besides the already mentioned benefits it is also very pleasant to work with them :)

-Mark