Hiring developers
How to get tech hiring right
Hew Ingram
Engineering lead, Applied
hew@beapplied.com www.beapplied.com
Top take home tips...
Check your job description
🔎
Ditch the CV
📜
Use scoring criteria as much as possible
📋
Optimise your take home test
✍️
Structured interviews only
🕴
Sourcing - Most important job factors
Stack Overflow developer survey 2020
Sourcing
- Conferences/meetups
- CodeBar
- Dev blog
- Use the devs you have... Twitter, blog, talks
- Open source
A few users have complained about very slow load times on the apply flow the app (the page you're using right now!)
These pages are server rendered and use jQuery.
What extra info would you look for?
What changes would you suggest to improve this load time
You and a colleague have been working on a new part of the site but you suspect you might have fallen behind.
Your colleague is off sick today and the rest of the team has asked for an update. What do you do?
Help you find the best person for every job, regardless of their background
Use Behavioural & Data Science to remove unconscious bias from the hiring process by design
Masterclass slides
By hewingram
