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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Additionally, the language you stick with will affect your options if you need to hire new team members. That said, it’s generally wiser to stick with freelancers when hiring. Remote developers are statistically more experienced and you can hire based on their proficiency instead of proximity to your office. Open Source Code.

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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

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. ” to the more complex, “Can you design Google?” ” (We’re testing for whether you can design a really large system.). NV: When you talk about “concrete” things, what do you mean?

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Java DevOps Engineer | Veldhoven, Netherlands

Transformify

Cross Border Talents is hiring a Senior Java DevOps to work in Veldhoven, The Netherlands in one of our Clients. Your Role as a Java DevOps Engineer: Support the architects in the translation from high level design to work-break down. Commercial experience with Java EE – strong preference for Java 8, or 7 acceptable.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While I was still in high school, I became a Java "expert" during a time when there was no such thing. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. November 25, 2009 9:54 AM Danny Wong said.

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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. Diagrams, architectures, design, etc. Java, Ruby, Python and C will be available. Remove noise.

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Why We Should Be Teaching Kids the Language of Design

crowdSPRING Blog

No, these languages are used by tech companies the world over who are all too eager to hire the best and brightest young and fluent minds they can find. There’s another language we need to be teaching our students these days: the language of design. Poorly designed landing pages are close to useless.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

It requires writers, actors, film crews, lighting, costume & set designs, make-up artists, post production, sound, editors and so on. You can’t replace this stuff with Java. ” Them, “Oh, we’ve hired A,B,C company to do it for us.” And we like to be entertained. How will you grab email addresses?