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- — Reflecting on 8 Years Building Artsy
Today I bid farewell to Artsy. This post is my personal journey and my last post as CTO.
- — 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.
- — 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 ...
- — How to Make Recruiter Spam Useful: My Canned Response
I get anywhere from 2-5 recruiter e-mails a day. Even though in 75% of the cases I have already heard about the job from my private network or the New York CTO Club, I decided t...
- — Doctors, Surgery and Open-Source
I visited a friend who lives in a remote, tropical region of the United States. He’s a doctor and a practicing eye surgeon. The island has both the very rich and the extremely p...
- — 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.
- — 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 ...
- — Oh BetaBeat: Me in New York's 20 Most Poachable Techies
I mean, I am flattered to be #20 of the most poachable techies in NYC list, and you got about half of your facts right (eg. my Github account) but seriously?
- — Moving to New York? All You Need is the Tech Made in NYC List
- — Just Say 'No' To Mailing List Spam by Recruiters (Continued)
… read my previous post first …
- — Moving to New York: a Guide for Software Engineers
This is somewhat a continuation of the unexpectedly popular story of my commute.
- — Dear California Engineer - Your Commute is Killing You? Move to New York!
- — Capitalizing on the LinkedIn IPO: Avoiding Short Term Personal Stock Loss
I just mentioned someone’s promotion to one of the person’s colleagues after seeing it on their updated LinkedIn profile. The reaction was not quite what I expected.
- — Summer Math and Engineering Internships @ Art.sy
- — Art.sy: Change the World
- — 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...