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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

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. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Startup Professionals Musings

But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators. He is the co-author of several books including “The Black Art of Java Game Programming.” Dharmesh is the founder and CTO of HubSpot, as well as a blogger and speaker on the topic of startups and Internet marketing.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

MIT OpenCourseWare : Find more than a hundred online course materials for electrical engineering and computer science in MIT’s OpenCourseWare collection. University of Michigan : From the University of Michigan, you’ll get access to great programming courses including Computer Vision and Internet History, Technology, and Security.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s happening now at WP Engine.). So e.g. “java programmer job in austin tx,” not something impossible like “java programmer.” You’re not hiring a Systems Engineer III for IBM or a Senior Regional Sales Manager for Dell. Put it right in the job description. Here's a load of advice.

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Intermediate C++ 3D Graphics Developer

Transformify

sockets, TCP connection) • Shader programming • Unreal Engine. Other requirements: • Good English reading, writing, and speaking skills • Ability to work to a schedule and meet deadlines • Interest and discipline to work effectively from home • Ability to work in a team • Stable internet connection and computer • Bachelor's degree or higher.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). An engineer who can talk intelligently about gender!

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. Server and client in Java.

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