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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. It’s difficult to hire and retain the top designers, engineers, data scientists, and QA professionals, and an organization’s sustained growth can be threatened by this block to growing engineering teams.

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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Step 2: Choose your sales channels.

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Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: Today, it seems as though there’s a never-ending list of channels and ways in which your customers can communicate with you and your business. And because of that, many businesses waste their time spinning their wheels on channels that aren’t bringing them business. You know, this channel that we invested in.

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

Call it whatever you like, but when businesses are hiring for any of those titles they simply want somebody who can generate lots of quality leads for as little cash as possible.”. This usually comes down to very company specific things, like what channels are effective for growth. Who do you hire second, third, fourth?

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The Tech Mentorship Gap: How Code2040 Is Solving. What You Can Do. And How LinkedIn Can Help

Hunter Walker

Each summer they match high performing software engineering students from these underrepresented groups with Mentor and summer internships. Companies can hire a Fellow at hire.code2040.org. Even if you’re just starting out in your career, there’s an opportunity to develop a ‘pay it forward’ mentality.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

And so when that revenue tripled and suddenly I was like, Oh, I can hire people to help me, like this thing is gonna work. Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. Like phone calls are inaccurate.

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