How I Hire Developers
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How I Hire Developers
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Some of my entrepreneur friends have been asking me:
how do I hire good developers?
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Show of Hands
Students
Employed in a company / agency
Freelancing
“in between jobs” AKA bums
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The Mindvalley Tech Hiring Pipeline
(right side is too long to fit in this space)
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Technical Test Interview
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Technical Test: Choose Two out of Three
2048
Game of Life
URL Shortener
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2048
application design
code coupling
frontend skills
integration and decomposition
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Game of Life
application design
algorithm efficiency
programming paradigms
code clarity
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URL Shortener
application design (esp MVC)
devops (deployments with db)
working with SQL / ORM / persistence
edge case / collision handling
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If your tests pass, you proceed with the interview
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I don’t really interview for skill inasmuch as for
attitude
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I’m looking for someone who
strives for excellence
is always curious
thirsts for learning
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Questions I ask in an interview
Do you participate in open source projects? How about side projects? Do you have an app on the app store? Do you have an app on the web? Do you blog?
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Questions I ask in an interview
Have you joined and won any competitions (not necessarily programming)? Do you play sports? Do you run marathons / sing / dance / paint / etc?
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Questions I ask in an interview
What's your favorite programming language? What was your favorite before that? What made you change your favorite?
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Questions I ask in an interview
What do you think is the coolest technology right now? Why do you think it's so great?
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Questions I ask in an interview
What is the biggest mistake that you've done so far, and what happened after that?
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Questions I ask in an interview
What do you think makes a good software developer?
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I ask a few more questions depending on the position
I’m hiring for
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More senior developers will get questions about their
previous work and the like
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I’m looking for developers who can solve problems
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But more importantly, I’m looking for someone I’d
love to work with everyday
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The Mindvalley Code of Awesomeness
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-Stephen Covey
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't
require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them.
Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is
internal, not external.
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How do I hire developers?
I look for people who love what they do and don’t mind getting paid for it