hiring
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- — How to Hire a VP of Engineering
I recently wrote about dividing CTO and VP of Engineering responsibilities. That post is only useful if you actually have a VP of Engineering. So how does one hire such an anima...
- — Finding a Github User's E-Mail Address
If you are like me, trying to hire developers, you’ve long mastered the dark art of digging up their e-mail address from social media, LinkedIn and, most importantly, Github for...
- — How to Write a Great CTO Job Description
I don’t think I’ve ever read a CTO job description cover-to-cover. Or seen many good ones. I skimmed over the text, at best.
- — Use Open-Source to Pivot Around Your Hiring Problem
It’s no secret that hiring and retaining engineering talent is going to be only more challenging in the years to come. The world’s largest companies across all industries are no...
- — Phone Screens are Harmful and The Benefits of the Informational Interview
I learned about informationals at Microsoft. For any decent developer Engineering managers setup an in-person informational before sending you into a full job interview loop. Th...
- — How To Write Your Code Bootcamp Academy Resume
Hiring Engineers? You probably see a lot of Code/App/Bootcamp Academy resumes. This year alone Artsy has received over 160 resumes from graduates of various code schools. It’s a...
- — A Roadmap for Hiring Engineering Teams
If there is a single thing I can point to as the key to creating a successful engineering organization, it’s the extreme focus on recruiting the best people in the world who sha...
- — We don't poach each-other's engineers. It's a New York thing.
I’ve always disliked the aggressive “dog eats dog” dynamic of Silicon Valley, especially related to hiring and I am feeling it every day in New York with many companies opening ...
- — The Other Side of Your Interview
I gave a talk yesterday at the Flatiron School about the interviewing and hiring process for Engineers at Artsy and beyond. This focuses primarily on explaining to juniors, ie. ...
- — When do you need to hire a designer?
I was showing Inez & Vinoodh’s Stephanie Seymour’s photograph on Artsy to a friend. “Beautiful!”, she exclaimed and clicked on the Inez & Vinoodh artist profile. I lost ...
- — American Horror Story and Entitlement in a Job Interview
“Wednesday night’s American Horror Story: Coven delivered an interesting theory on youth culture: Millennials are actually dead inside.” I’m quoting Bustle’s article, which quot...
- — How To Reject Engineering Candidates
Over the past 15 years I have interviewed hundreds of Engineers. I had the pleasure of hiring quite a few, but I also had the duty to reject many.
- — 5 Anti-patterns in a College Grad Engineer's Resume
A resume is what you did, it’s not who you are.
- — Help Me Fix Tech Recruiting: Become a Recruiter
- — Five Ways to Torture Candidates in a Technical Interview
When I joined Microsoft in ‘99 I was taught how to properly interview candidates. I was shown the wheel of competencies, a kind of a wheel of fortune where a color represents th...
- — Hack
0-60 in Startup Tech - — How to Cross the Chasms of Your Technology Career
I want to talk about your scope of influence as a Software Engineer and how to expand it.
- — You Have to Stop Saying Your Experience is Under NDA in Interviews
I talked to a developer recently. He said:
- — Why You Should Leave Microsoft, Too
I read Bertrand’s post on “Tales from the Evil Empire” about him leaving Microsoft this morning. Congratulations. We have never met, but your blog was in my RSS feed for a very ...
- — Corporate America: How to Let Great Engineers Go
This was in my drafts for years, a story from a past life …
- — Moving to New York? All You Need is the Tech Made in NYC List
- — Just Say 'No' To Mailing List Spam by Recruiters
This thread just popped up on the MongoDB users list: [JOB]Full time Developer w/ MongoDB experience for a Fortune 1000 client in NYC!.
- — Enginelopers and Devengeers: How do You Title Engineering Hires?
- — Github is Your New Resume
- — Moving to New York: a Guide for Software Engineers
This is somewhat a continuation of the unexpectedly popular story of my commute.
- — Summer Math and Engineering Internships @ Art.sy
- — Technical Lead / Architect Job in NY
- — Agile Hiring: get rid of the open headcount
Here’s a disruptive idea for the corporate world: let’s get rid of the traditional “open headcount”.
- — Strictly Platonic: Engineering Jobs on Craigslist
In the past six months I’ve done dozens of engineering interviews for our many job openings, including developers and team leads. We’ve hired some excellent people in this proce...
- — Tales from the interview: the drool and the handshake test
I feel very inspired by Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing: Tales from the Interview posts, so here’s one from my own.