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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Java DevOps Engineer | Veldhoven, Netherlands

Transformify

Cross Border Talents is hiring a Senior Java DevOps to work in Veldhoven, The Netherlands in one of our Clients. Your Role as a Java DevOps Engineer: Support the architects in the translation from high level design to work-break down. Contribute to the domain architecture pictures Maintain the domain/solution.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

MIT OpenCourseWare : Find more than a hundred online course materials for electrical engineering and computer science in MIT’s OpenCourseWare collection. Princeton : Through Princeton University’s Coursera site, you can find courses on algorithms, computer architecture, and networks.

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. Diagrams, architectures, design, etc. Well, you get my point.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). Why do I say that?

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

All this spells entirely different software architectures and priorities, requiring different kinds of technological expertise. It inevitably involves data and content caching, one of the most difficult aspects, engineering-wise, of web development. One major caveat is Google App Engine , which is not compatible with all technologies.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.