My company is having troubles finding good canidates 'off the streets' so we are looking to pull great programmers from other companies. My question is: What do you look for in a company to decide if you want to take the risk and change jobs? I'm really looking for specifics. I know most programmers look at the environment, culture, and...
What process do you use to recruit programmers? we have a multi stage interview process... Pre interviews... Resume review..... then if they are interesting :- stage 1: come have a chat, talk about what you have done, discuss the position, dig a bit into they approach software development stage 2: Coding Test Stage 3: Generally disc...
I'm finishing my final year in college this year and am starting the process of interviewing with various companies. I had an initial interview with Microsoft already and will be having a second round interview in a few weeks. I am wondering what experienced programmers feel about working at a large company versus a small company. I'm n...
My company wants to make some serious applications on the Mac, but we're having a hard time finding experienced mac developers. We're talking Objective-C Cocoa native stuff here. What's the best way to get them? Remote employees? From where? Contract workers or companies? Who? ...
We are looking at hiring a software development project manager. His job is going to be concerned with running multiple dedicated project teams focused on delivery of software for external customers. He will also need to provide support to our business development unit and oversee post-implementations support of the aforementioned softwa...
Hi, I would like to know how are you trying to find good software developers and where are you looking for them. Regards, Niko ...
From your own experience, what was the online recruitment website you felt worked most for you? Which one you get more phone calls through? ...
I know there are a number of successful open source authors here. We develop a relatively successful open source project (I won't say what at the fear of spamming). Now gradually, after about 3 years the number of developers has slowly increased, but they tend to turn up sporadically, write some code, then leave forever. The nature of t...
I'm interviewing for programmers at the moment, and in one case, we've a chap who comes across extremely well but admits there are gaps in his knowledge. This isn't a problem for us, because we've allowed time for a training period, but we're curious to see how quickly he can pick up new concepts. We've agreed to conduct a sort of "home...
Expanding upon http://stackoverflow.com/questions/395557/are-framework-dependencies-a-problem, my uncle runs a one-man software company that was once the software departement of an general IT company. He writes applications using Delphi and Delphi for PHP. His strength is that he has alot of domain specific knowledge in regards to the a...
what do you think about IT recruitment and staffing firms in the software engineering industry, is it hurting or helping our industry? If you search a career site for anything IT related nearly half of the results are staffing companies...what is your take on this? Personally, I feel like they are making software developers a commodity ...
Hi, recently I had a job interview where I had to present self-written code and explain the programm architecture and design, had to take a look at company source code, explain what I understand of this source code sections presented (it was the domain model of an application) and had to modify the code to let the program work a little...
I was wondering if managers/developers out there had any opinions on the best places to find freelance/contract developers? Over the years my company has utilized contractors and freelance developers (both in the U.S. and offshore) for many projects. We've tried sites like rentacoder (horrible experience), and also utilized our own net...
I'd like to create a new and open sourced language. Since it's really rare to find programmers that actually dealt with compiler theory I need some advice. How would you make a person interested in your open source project? How do you bring him to a position where he wants to contribute? Is there a special place where I can find those pe...
So I'm leaving my job for a role at another company and before I leave I have one last task: I must hire a replacement for myself <gulp>. The reason for the <gulp> is that this is the last thing I will do for my team, and I really don't want to leave them with a dud as they are great bunch of guys. As a team lead I've interviewed for de...
A question for all you interviewers/recruiters out there. How do you evaluate candidates at job interviews? How do you differentiate the good from the bad? (please, no "FizzBuzz" answers...) Which kind of questions do you feel that have the best results? Personally, I find that asking about all kind of .Net internals subjects usually pro...
So we have the internal HR staff filtering resumes to send us good programmers for further interviewing. What would you suggest as good tips for them to look at so that they filter poor candidates without rejecting potential good ones? ...
Here are some task details: The key functionality of service is Java socket-server (based on Red5. I know it might be overkill, but it makes me confident in future) on unix-platform (FreeBSD or Linux Debian, but I suppose, that the last one). Service deals with quite a lot of simple data. Service must have very strong and wise API. We ...
Next week I'm beginning several rounds of interviews for a company wide technical intern program. Many of these candidates are only sophomores or juniors and have little programming experience. They can do basic data structures, regurgitate algorithms and the like, but they have little or no professional coding experience in an enterpri...
I have tried posting to Dice.com and craigslist but didn't get that many resumes. Dice and craigslist have worked great for Java and IT job postings in the past. ...