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Lessons from Facebook on Recruiting Elite Engineers

David Teten

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. It’s hard to find good engineering talent right now, and if you’ve found somebody who knows what they’re doing they probably know others.

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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

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) 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. office, right in the heart of MIT.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Smaller, High Quality Meetups and Places to Learn: Open Coffee - Weekly informal meetup started by Bijan Sabet and Nabeel Hyatt. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Are you passionate about creating great user experiences within a product? Both internal and external.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) These companies don’t have search engineers on staff.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. These elements of my previous corporate career have been crucial in my attempts to reverse engineer an existing industry by simply adding an element of human interaction to a seemingly saturated (online dating) market. Image Credit: Janet Wu.