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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. New wave tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have to hire thousands of developers with six-figure salaries to offer products that work well.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Jun 21, 2013. Why any of this matters.