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Start-up Chile Workshop: Hiring Developers

Bertrand Fan
September 26, 2011

Start-up Chile Workshop: Hiring Developers

Bertrand Fan

September 26, 2011
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  1. • A team member from every department of the company

    interviews the candidate • Take them out to lunch or dinner and don’t talk about programming
  2. How are the similar products ordered? Is the similarity reciprocal?

    Will they ever be more than 5 similar products?
  3. Propose something incorrect What if we just took the HTML

    of those similar products and put them in a column in the product row?
  4. Warning signs that you may be interviewing an asshole programming

    language elitism misogyny bitching about their former co-workers
  5. Let’s say the page is slow Basic indexes across the

    columns memcache Intermediate apc
  6. Let’s say the page is slow Basic indexes across the

    columns memcache Intermediate offline tasks/queuing systems apc
  7. Let’s say the page is slow Basic indexes across the

    columns memcache Intermediate offline tasks/queuing systems apc sharding
  8. Let’s say the page is slow Basic indexes across the

    columns memcache Intermediate offline tasks/queuing systems apc sharding http caching / edge side includes
  9. More • Read their blog, ask questions about the topics

    they write on. • Follow them on twitter, ignore the bullshit and ask questions about the links they post. • Simply ask them why they’re interested in working on your product.
  10. How to Keep Us • Don’t expect to contract everything,

    hire real team members. • Pay Well :) • For early and big hires, give equity with vesting. • Include developers in product and design talks, they have good ideas too.