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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

We’ll discuss the critical questions a CEO needs to answer to effectively capitalize on the remote labor market while avoiding the pitfalls most commonly encountered when people attempt to hire developers that are far from their company’s headquarters. Hiring remote talent is much more complicated than hiring in your backyard.

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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

If you want app development that is both affordable and efficient, you need to know how to hire programmers to do the job. The best way to plan your app development is to know how to hire the best app developers for your project requirements. Where to Hire Developers for Your Project. How to Hire Remote Developers.

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Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early

SoCal CTO

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. The problem is that doesn't match with reality and likely they need to find more dollars. The remaining 10%, takes the other 90% of the time.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. Basically, freelancers use tokens, called “connections,” to apply to various job openings and try their luck at getting hired by a client. DesignCrowd.

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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?

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Verified Data Will Prevent “Fake It Til You Make It”

Hunter Walker

A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. Or a hiring manager may run a stack of resumes through some candidate eval software which pulls all sorts of data from github, stack overlflow, etc in order to try and verify that an individual has at least been publicly active in an area.

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