View from Seed
MAY 24, 2017
Christina Sass is co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that locates, trains, and staffs world-class engineers in Africa for hire by tech companies in the US and elsewhere. They’ve sparked a movement, cracked the code on finding great coders, and have attracted investors like Mark Zuckerberg.
femgineer.com
JULY 18, 2010
Femgineer Coder. HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. When to start recruiting?
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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. 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.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Small business entrepreneurship is not designed for scale, the owners want to own their own business and “feed the family.&# They are anyone who runs his/her own business.
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
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Your potential customer base grows as tools become simpler and easier to use, even non-coders can build a professional website with minimal effort. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. The answer is yes.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use. It was humbling.
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