Hiring a dev

Hiring a DevLearn Assembly

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Content• What does Dev want?

• How to hire a Dev or a Tech Associate?

• How to write a good Job description?

Tech is important

• Allen!

• Stats as programmer for Honey Well

• Gates!

• At 13, first computer program in Basic on GE System (tic-tac-toe)

Tech is important

• Daniel Ek!

• First company at 14

• CTO Jajja Communication & CTO uTorrent

• KHT Royal Institute od Technologies

Tech is important

• Drew Houston!

• Degree in computer science (MIT)

• Start first release of Dropbox himself when he was student

What does Dev want?

• Learn

• Work with competent people

• In a fun environment

• Try new technologies

• A good salary

• Their opinion can be heard

Most important values

Team

Salary

Technologies

Company Culture

Product

How to Hire?

• Know what you’re hiring for

• Know what you’re going to ask

• Take notes

• Have an opinion & back it up

• What’s your culture?

• Recruit for your culture!

• Rails/Ruby

• Cocoa

• Scrum and Project Management

Are just nice haves…..

• Passion

• Customer / Product Focus

• Work Ethic

Are must haves!

• Team Spirit

Interviewing

Tips/Tricks• Don’t walk through resume

• Check references• Take a lot of notes• Interview many candidates• Many interviewers (key employees, associate)• Assign area of focus to interviewers• Debrief with Everyone

Smart Questions…• Behavioral questions!

• Delivered a key project under deadline?

• Negative Tweet?

• Your team partner is not efficient enough. What do you do?

• Dig into details!

• What did YOU do? (best realization)

• How did you know it worked?

• What could you have done better?

Some ideas…• Beginning!

• What did you prepare for this interview?

• Did you have a look at our product? What’s your opinion?

• Classics…!

• 3 Adjectives people use to describe you?

• Why did you choose this

• What could you have done better?

• Give them for questions…

Where do you find Stars?

• Ask your Friends

• Past employees/ers

• Networking/Parties

• Word of Mouth

Ideas• https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/paris

• http://humantalks.com/

• http://startupweekend.org/

• https://www.numaparis.com/

• Epita, Epitech, EEMI

• Un cours Leeaarn Assembly pour les devs?

Example

Never say…http://blog.humancoders.com/comment-rediger-une-

offre-demploi-comme-un-mauvais-recruteur-60/

Write as a Dev• no blabla

• Be realistic

• Avoid no-end of company description

• Be specific

• Be Human!

• Avoid useless technologies descriptions

• Ask to a Dev to check your Job description!

An examplehttp://jobs.humancoders.com/ruby/jobs/380-une-future-

locomotive-sur-rails