hiring a dev
Post on 18-Oct-2014
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How to Hire a Dev? Certainly one of the most popular question for entrepreneur. Fabien Charbit co-founder and CTO of Sush.io (http://sush.io) give some tips and talk about his experience.TRANSCRIPT
Hiring a DevLearn Assembly
Content• What does Dev want?
• How to hire a Dev or a Tech Associate?
• How to write a good Job description?
Tech is important
• Allen!
• Stats as programmer for Honey Well
• Gates!
• At 13, first computer program in Basic on GE System (tic-tac-toe)
Tech is important
• Daniel Ek!
• First company at 14
• CTO Jajja Communication & CTO uTorrent
• KHT Royal Institute od Technologies
Tech is important
• Drew Houston!
• Degree in computer science (MIT)
• Start first release of Dropbox himself when he was student
What does Dev want?
• Learn
• Work with competent people
• In a fun environment
• Try new technologies
• A good salary
• Their opinion can be heard
Most important values
Team
Salary
Technologies
Company Culture
Product
How to Hire?
• Know what you’re hiring for
• Know what you’re going to ask
• Take notes
• Have an opinion & back it up
• What’s your culture?
• Recruit for your culture!
• Rails/Ruby
• Cocoa
• Scrum and Project Management
Are just nice haves…..
• Passion
• Customer / Product Focus
• Work Ethic
Are must haves!
• Team Spirit
Interviewing
Tips/Tricks• Don’t walk through resume
• Check references• Take a lot of notes• Interview many candidates• Many interviewers (key employees, associate)• Assign area of focus to interviewers• Debrief with Everyone
Smart Questions…• Behavioral questions!
• Delivered a key project under deadline?
• Negative Tweet?
• Your team partner is not efficient enough. What do you do?
• Dig into details!
• What did YOU do? (best realization)
• How did you know it worked?
• What could you have done better?
Some ideas…• Beginning!
• What did you prepare for this interview?
• Did you have a look at our product? What’s your opinion?
• Classics…!
• 3 Adjectives people use to describe you?
• Why did you choose this
• What could you have done better?
• Give them for questions…
Where do you find Stars?
• Ask your Friends
• Past employees/ers
• Networking/Parties
• Word of Mouth
Ideas• https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/paris
• http://humantalks.com/
• http://startupweekend.org/
• https://www.numaparis.com/
• Epita, Epitech, EEMI
• Un cours Leeaarn Assembly pour les devs?
Example
Never say…http://blog.humancoders.com/comment-rediger-une-
offre-demploi-comme-un-mauvais-recruteur-60/
Write as a Dev• no blabla
• Be realistic
• Avoid no-end of company description
• Be specific
• Be Human!
• Avoid useless technologies descriptions
• Ask to a Dev to check your Job description!
An examplehttp://jobs.humancoders.com/ruby/jobs/380-une-future-
locomotive-sur-rails