Questions tagged [hiring]
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How to budget for a programmer you're not ready to hire yet? [closed]
I am trying to work up a budget for an app, specifically a budget for hiring a third-party programmer to add a specific feature, and I'm trying to figure out how to get a decent number. The ...
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How to integrate a second programmer to a startup [duplicate]
I'm the technical founder of a startup and I'm currently looking to hire a second developer for our product.
Since I've been the sole developer, there is no formal organization for the project and I ...
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Old programmer disappeared. About to hire another programmer. How do I approach this? [closed]
After spending over one year working on a social network project for me using WordPress and BuddyPress, my programmer has disappeared, even though he got paid every single week, for the whole period. ...
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I've never interviewed anybody before... HELP? [closed]
There were 3 developers at this GIS tracking company, but now there's 2. Last week my boss was fired. Today, new developers will be coming in for interviews. They'll be coming in from a placement ...
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Choosing the language to build an app in based on hiring market vs performance and maintainability [closed]
I'm facing a choice of whether to start building Haskell components for a certain production app that is all done in Ruby.
I'm leaning toward Haskell for several reasons, primarily speed (compiled ...
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OO Design related questions in technical interviews [closed]
I've been attending quite a few interviews recently and have been asked by companies to answer "design a [insert model]" questions more than a few times.
Is this normal in the industry nowadays? I've ...
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Under which circumstances (if any) does it make sense to work for a startup, for free? [closed]
I've been bumping around the startup world for a while, and most startups I've seen seem to have (amongst other things) two things in common:
A lack of money
An inability to, reliably, hire good ...
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Should I contract someone to help me with an existing project? [closed]
I have a paid Android app that I made by myself this past summer and I've been working on it throughout the year. The app is geared toward a professional niche market (but there are people all around ...
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Open Source sponsored feature development [closed]
I am considering to sponsor a development of some particular features in some Open Source tools. I would like the results of the work to be available publicly, and if possible, to be included in the ...
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What do you absolutely have to know about a candidate before hiring him? [closed]
What essential questions do you have to know the answer for, about a prospective software development candidate, before hiring him/her?
I'm not seeking specific interview problems (e.g. sort this 3D ...
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How relevant are Brainbench scores when evaluating candidates? [closed]
I've seen many companies using certification services such as Brainbench when evaluating candidates. Most times they use it as a secondary screen prior to interview or as a validation to choose ...
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How to interview a natural scientist for a dev position? [closed]
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I already did some interviews for my company, mostly computer scientists for dev positions but also some testers and project managers. Now I have to fill a vacancy in our research ...
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How to estimate effort required to convert a large codebase to another language/platform [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best way to estimate cost related to porting code from language A to language B?
We have an MFC C++ program with around 200,000 lines of code in it. It's pretty much finished....
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What are some good tasks to assign co-op students/interns? [closed]
My company is investigating hiring a University Computer Science co-op student (BSc year 3) for a 4- or 8-month work term. (I'm not sure how internationally-recognized the term co-op is - it's ...
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What does long-term freelancing say about a developer's experience? [closed]
I have been interviewing candidates lately for a developer position requiring 10+ years experience and have come across a couple of CVs that I am not sure how to understand: I have interviewed a few ...
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Is there any formal research in FizzBuzz Question Effectiveness? [closed]
After seeing this question today on variation of the FizzBuzz interview question, as well as seeing other questions related to it around, I have to ask: is there any formal research on how effective ...
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Is programming a profession not for a person with speech impairment? [closed]
My friend has 15 years of programming experience and Ph.D. in mathematics. He has also cerebral palsy with speech impairment. Because of his handicap, he chose to being a software developer after his ...
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How to pick a web application software engineer? [closed]
How should I pick a web application software engineer?
The (permanent) position is to rewrite the client of an existing desktop client server application. The pages will not be generated ...
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Should I expect recent grads to be familiar with basic programming concepts? [closed]
It seems there's a HUGE discrepancy between what I expect someone who's studied programming for a few years at university, and what one actually knows.
I don't feel like I'm asking overcomplicated ...
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Interviewing a developer who's skilled in a language you don't know [duplicate]
Background:
I'm an experienced developer and technical architect (C#, Delphi, Java, Clojure, Assembler, Perl, various esoteric functional programming languages)
We need to hire some Ruby developers ...
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How to hire a good C# developer if I don't know C#? [closed]
I'm a C++ developer. I know how Windows works on the native level, but I'm not a big expert in C# and .NET. Now I need a C# developer in my team (all my developers are C++). How can I hire a great C# ...
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Is a request for a code sample after a job offer common? [closed]
I was verbally offered a job and the manager insisted that I start the day after the following day from the interview; so two days after the interview. I left the interview unsure of the offer the ...
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Remote Working & Relocation [closed]
Sorry if this question is a duplicate, I did some extensive searching and found nothing on quite the same topic (though a couple on partially-overlapping topics).
Recently, whilst on holiday in ...
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What's the deal with programming languages as strict job requirements? [closed]
I went to a "job fair" recently and I was surprised to see how much emphasis workplaces seem to put on the programming languages candidates are familiar with.
From my (admittedly limited) experience, ...
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How can you filter out irritable programmers in interviews? [closed]
So I've had a few situations now where programmers have passed the interview teams with flying colors, only to find when they arrive on scene, they demonstrate an extreme touchiness any time any ...
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How important is a good coding style for the decision to hire a programmer? [closed]
Even as a student I am asked to review the code of programmers who have (not) passed a test (create a list of Fibonacci numbers on android).
While I am very strict on coding style I just read about ...
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Any tips on getting hired as a software project manager straight out of college? [closed]
I graduated with a BS in compsci last September, and I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to find a job as a project manager ever since.
I fell in love with software engineering (the formal practice ...
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How valid is ITJobsWatch data? [closed]
(I've been wondering all day whether to ask this question here - my biggest concern would be that it would be seen as off-topic, or not relevant. It's not relevant to the US, this is true, but it is ...
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A Crash Course in ASP.NET [closed]
I'm a .NET developer who's eying up new jobs for a change of pace. My career so far has led me to become quite proficient with C#, WPF, WinForms, MSSQL, and all kinds of goodies in the .NET framework ...
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How productive is an excellent developer compared to an average one? [duplicate]
I believe that I read somewhere that Google has a rule of thumb that an excellent developer is around 300 times more productive than an average one. Does anyone have any rules of thumb used by large ...
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Is "Hiring only the Best" a really practical advice for normal desktop application programming? [closed]
For background, we are doing desktop engineering applications, with an AutoCAD like UI, something similar to etabs.
One thing that really bugs me is, is there any need to hire the very best ...
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How do I find someone to build an app for me? [closed]
I have an idea that I would like to develop as an app. I have no programming skills though.
-Can someone point to some resources on how I can hire a reputable company to do the job for me.
What are ...
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What's an assessment day and what kind of individual & group based programming activities are involved? [closed]
The only things that I know:
An assessment day is much more than a simple interview. Actually 1 or more interviews are just a part of it.
Both individual and group based programming activities are ...
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Hiring a Junior Developer, What should I ask? [closed]
We are currently hiring a junior developer to help me out, as I have more projects than I can currently manage. I have never hired anyone who wasn't a friend or at least an acquaintance. I have a ...
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Are there reasons other than budget for hiring "entry-level" programmers? [closed]
Are there reasons other than budget for hiring "entry-level" programmers?
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What do developers want to learn at their next startup? [closed]
As a developer, i know how much I like learning new stuff. Now that I'm hiring developers for my startup, I know I can't compete with Google's zillion-dollar bonuses and fancy cafeterias, but we are ...
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Writing a job requirement for a web application developer [closed]
I'm currently writing a job requirement for a software engineer position for my company, in which we are looking for a developer to work on client-side web application work. How should I title the job ...
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Need help deciding if Joomla! experience as a good metric for hiring a particular prospective employee [closed]
My company has been looking to hire a PHP developer. Some of the requirements for the job include:
an understanding of design patterns, particularly MVC.
some knowledge of PHP 5.3's new features.
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How long of a trial period do you use with programmers - how quickly can you tell if they are talented and a good fit? [closed]
It seems most jobs that I've been exposed to come with a 3 month trial period, during which the employer decides whether the employee is doing good enough work, and is a good fit.
3 months seem like ...
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Choosing between two programmers: experience vs. passion [closed]
I am in a position where I have to hire a programmer and have the option of 2 candidates, the first has experience but he doesn't have a passion for coding and he says so while the second doesn't have ...
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Posting High Salary in Job Ad for Programmer [closed]
Would posting a high salary on a programmer job advertisement encourage strong candidates and weed out lesser candidates? The salary would be relative to the position.
Edit: Maybe it wouldn't alter ...
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KPI's for Programmers [duplicate]
Do you know any Key Performance Indicators for Developers? What should be measured and monitored?
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How do you look for programmers when your project's not in a particularly popular language? [closed]
So, we've got a product, written in Perl. Mind you, it's good Perl, pretty well object-oriented, with a strong functional-programming influence, extensive test suites, and it's an agile environment ...
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Is there a good site to hire programmers for little projects? [closed]
I need to a piece of php code that goes beyond my abilities so I need to hire somebody to do it. It's not really something too long or complex so I wanted to know if there was a straightforward way to ...
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How to describe styles and approaches of C++ programming? [closed]
How can I say more than just "C++" on my resume, reports or other writings, to convey clearly what kind of C++ programming I've been doing?
Are there well-defined styles of C++? ("Styles" might ...
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Does tweeting 9 to 5 hurt job applicants? [closed]
If you were looking into a job applicant's background and discovered that he or she has 1200 followers on Twitter and averages 50 tweets per day (more than half of which are during business hours), ...
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how do early stage startups hire ninja programmers [closed]
I am programmer who just started working on a startup idea. At the moment I want to bring onboard at least one programmer. This programmer should be a ninja - a 10x engineer.
Since early days are ...
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Will You Use an Online Technical Skills Test to Hire a Senior Developer? [closed]
There are online services such as IKM that offer skills tests in many areas, including programming.
Would you use these kind of tests when hiring for a senior developer position?
What about just ...
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Hiring at start-ups vs established companies [closed]
I have always wondered about this and perhaps experienced folks here can comment on this. I always read that big established software companies such as Google, Microsoft, etc are always wary of hiring ...
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Choosing the right programmer among a class of undergrads [closed]
I am a CS undergrad but I landed a programming job last year and I like it a lot. We are currently 3 programmer in the development section of the company and we have to work with pretty much anything ...
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