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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. This is because hiring the wrong person could be extremely damaging to a company. Not hiring anyone is also extremely damaging. Java, Ruby, Python and C will be available. For a startup especially, not taking risks means dying.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. What is Drupal? Drupal is prevalent in the Silicon Valley ecosystem?

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

Or a retail store can have an AI that hire human temp works from an AI human recruiter to perform instructed tasks during the holiday season. And you can have any developer using their existing language preference from C# to Java to Facebook chatbots to build their own bots to simply parse the statement from the blockchain and sign with keys.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find the answers below by Cody Riddar that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view. You, a creative guy?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.