Feld Thoughts
JUNE 6, 2016
Too often, aspiring engineers who lack the funds to pursue a computer science degree from a university or take part in a bootcamp find themselves locked out of technology jobs, despite often severe talent shortages. The post More Coders. As Heather told me, “I have an Ivy League education, but that’s not where I learned to code.
Hunter Walker
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
The show included a surreptitiously recorded conversation with an employee of a “product-destruction” facility, who described receiving truckload after truckload of Amazon returns and shredding everything—ostensibly for recycling, although the recoverable content of a chewed-up random selection of consumer goods is not high.
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Diego Basch
APRIL 28, 2012
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. One thing I can say with 100% certainty is that making someone code on the board won’t give you any information that you couldn’t get from a phone conversation.
The Next Web
MARCH 30, 2013
The right developer on the other hand can start you off on the correct footing, pivot any incorrect tech choices, network to pull in more skilled coders and motivate them to do their best work. Go to the coders. One of the most common causes of death among startups is people. Make your interview process unique to your culture.
The Next Web
MARCH 9, 2014
I want to share an interesting conversation I had with Kiran Divvela back when he was still interviewing for our company. More like trying to write with a crayon when the rest of our conversation had been written in pen. Fairly regularly, one of our engineers, Aaron O’Connell, will take time to explain what it is he’s working on.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 19, 2011
Covered extensively here and here , Lean UX is a team-wide acceptance of significantly lighter-weight design deliverables that are used to drive conversation, estimation and validation both with internal stakeholders and ultimately customers. With these lighter-weight designs, the missing documented details are conveyed through conversation.
www.peterdrew.net
OCTOBER 23, 2010
first of all you need a project to use to source a good coder. This product needs to be a product you create specifically for the purpose of finding a coder. Good coders, just code and get paid to code, its that simple. This is the kind of coder you are looking for. This post is about outsourcing coders.
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