ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

However, many use employment platforms like Fiverr or UpWork to make these hires – and the platforms themselves are anything but unshakable institutions. Such a scenario would push hiring processes back to square one, potentially spelling disaster for those who solely contract online. Too big to fail. The way forward.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. Hiring = Sales. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. What does the right hire look like?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Sure, they may hand out a few training booklets and introduce new hires to the team, but successful onboarding goes much deeper than that. When organizations fail to implement such a strategy, new hires slip through the cracks. These companies also see a 69% boost in new hire retention. Align all the Departments.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2019

The struggle of establishing a company’s identity (and, by extension, its culture) is even more real for remote companies: without the luxury of face-to-face communication, remote workers may grow disconnected and dissatisfied – and their sudden change of heart will forever remain a mystery to the company’s managers.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

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. Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects. Manage Agency Growth to Expand at a Proper Rate.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

When he was 21, he came to America to further his education and quickly earned two Masters of Science degrees – the first in Computer Science and the second in Software Engineering. In 2013, ITU funded Kranthi’s proposal for what is now known as the Education Management System (EMS). Looking to Solve Problems.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available. Enterprise Apps.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

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Hiring Sales Engineer Software Engineering 64

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. This second objective plays no small part in allowing you to hire the best.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The company intends to fill up to 150 positions in technology fields including network engineers, security engineers, systems engineers, security architects, network architects, infrastructure architects, software engineers and project managers. Enterprise acxiom hiring'

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

Hiring a unicorn like that may involve pushing your search outside your region like hiring Ukrainian developers. Remote teams work from the same office and include a wide range of specialists – UX designers, solid software engineers and project managers. How to hire technology superstars? English skills.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 30, 2012

Behind that growth is a vibrant tech community of software engineers, analysts and project managers. Austin’s burgeoning ecosystem of startups is in high gear, buoyed by the rise of cloud-based infrastructure, mobile development, and cleaner technologies. But what about more … Continue reading →

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 26, 2014

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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API Ruby Software Review Software Engineering 104

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Moreover, as both React and React Native are based on Javascript, you need to hire only one team of Javascript developers. Alexander Grigoryan, the senior director for software engineering, application platform and online grocery for Walmart Global eCommerce, tells that his team looked at various options for building its cross-platform apps.

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Mobile Developer Open Source Software Engineering 147

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

While there are some services that are commonly outsourced, such as customer support and software engineering, there are actually hundreds of other tasks that can be effectively done by outsourcers, thereby helping to scale your business. The better you manage your data, the more effective your business efforts are. Data entry.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

But as a company starts to see growth and needs to hire sales, marketing, support and other functions, scaling to hundreds or thousands of people, technology vision needs to be augmented with leaders who can build high-functioning teams. . You want to make a lasting impact, and you should hire people who aspire to that.”

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. In average, the hourly rate for software engineering services reaches $47 per hour. Hourly rate.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Most small and medium-sized businesses have to deal with inventory management at various levels. Benjamin Yee is the entrepreneur behind an innovative software, EMERGE App, that makes it easy to manage the process. I didn’t set out to write an inventory management software package from scratch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Modern content management systems (like WordPress) make it easy to manage such content. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. Tip: If you decide to hire a freelance web site designer and/or developer, you should look for at least three people (or shops) and ask them for detailed quotes.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. If this channel works, you can later hire other folks to join you. You don’t need to hire an army as you can do the most of the work yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. So much for timing.

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San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Managing remote teams was seen as a risky adventure and most managers were ready to go great lengths to avoid it. Nowadays, the same managers are learning how to manage remote teams the hard way amid coronavirus outbreak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The numbers within the infographic is drawn from Riviera Partners placement data last year, and highlights some interesting hiring and salary trends – for example, the highest-paying engineer role goes to those who create and manage databases (sorry, front-end folks, you’re right at the bottom), while the most valuable developer skills (..)

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app. It’s an important first step regardless of whether you are hiring a professional team or designing the mobile app yourself.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

Techtonic Academy provides underprivileged youth, minorities, women, and veterans both technical training and mentorship to become entry-level software engineers and pursue a career in the technology field. As Heather told me, “I have an Ivy League education, but that’s not where I learned to code.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

By James Pooley, author of “ Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage “. After all, if you can entice an MVP from another company to enlist in your ranks, you’ll deprive the competition of a key asset while taking immediate advantage of your new hire’s previous training and experience.

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