How To Hire Employees For A Startup, Fast And Pain-Free?
- Yuliia Mamonov tl;dr: Studies have shown that startup owners spend up to 40% of their time on hiring. How do vetting marketplaces can help them get talented staff effortlessly, and why are they better than job boards or bidding platforms? Read on to find out!featured in #333
Quick Tips For Hiring Remotely
- Andreas Klinger tl;dr: Andreas discusses and addresses how we handles the 3 main issues when hiring remotely: (1) More people applying to job postings. (2) Team is in multiple locations. (3) Interviewing people with different cultural backgrounds.featured in #318
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How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code
tl;dr: Typical white-boarding interviews are suboptimal. A better method is to have "the candidate read existing code and talk about what it does and how it works." Reading code is: (1) Probably 95% of what a developer does in their job. (2) Way more efficient than writing. (3) Puts the candidates at ease compared to writing code. The author shows us how to put this is into practice.featured in #309
5 Coding Interview Questions I Hate
- Vladimir Klepov tl;dr: Questions include: (1) What happens if you build a circular prototype chain? (2) How to migrate from webpack 3 to webpack 5? (3) What’s the fastest way to convert a string to number? And more.featured in #303
Developing A Values Interview Question
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss tl;dr: A company’s core values are important to consider when hiring but, how do you develop an interview question that measures those values? Jacob outlines 3 things: (1) Describe how the value influences action. (2) Figure out what behaviors are behind the value. (3) Find a situation where this value would influence behavior.featured in #288
More Follow-Up On The Tech Hiring Market
- Gergely Orosz tl;dr: Gergely looks at 30+ compensation related data points to see how companies, across different regions, are adjusting to the rapidly changing hiring market. His advice: "if your company has not yet made off-cycle compensation changes, you’ll likely have to make a case for a larger than usual raise for the new year. Start engaging your leadership now."featured in #271
My Lessons From Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups
- Marco Rogers tl;dr: 3 harmful startup hiring mistakes: (1) Hiring for specifics skills vs understanding you may not know what you need. (2) Prioritizing technical over soft skills i.e. lack of ego, communication, adaptability, cross-functional collaboration. (3) Lack of thoroughness & consistency in the process. Marco also discusses steps to make interviewing a critical business strategy.featured in #268
Learn To Hire Well And You’ll Never Lose
- Hunter Walk tl;dr: 3 tips: (1) Know what excellent looks like - if you don't know what an excellent marketer looks like, spend time with a few who excel in their domain. (2) Ask candidates who reject you to name names i.e. people in their network who could fill the role. (3) Sell past the close, in case the candidate gets a counter offer from their current employer, etc..featured in #263
Engineering Teams Are Just Networks
- Marianne Bellotti tl;dr: "If you want to hire well, have modest baseline of minimum qualifications and think of your engineering organization as a network." Marianne illustrates why this is critical: people do not work out in their new roles "because their strengths do not align with the incentives the network creates."featured in #257