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Chris Garrett - Bootstrapping a team of developers
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Hey! Presents
October 28, 2014
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Chris Garrett - Bootstrapping a team of developers
Presented at Hey! #13 on 28th October, 2014.
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Transcript
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“Bootstrapping Recruitment: Building Our Own Cerebro” CHRIS GARRETT - @CHRSGRRTT
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Abstraktion
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“Soup to Nuts & Bolts”
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Recruitment
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Recruitment
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“Team Building”
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Growth Build More, Ship More, Sell More
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Moving from 6m to 20m, to 100m tracks in 3 years
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Diversification Expand Your Offering
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Sustainability People Come and Go
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Lazy Hiring
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Proactive Hiring
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Build a Thing
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Learning from clinical trial recruitment…
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Full spread of developers 52 languages used by 844 developers
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Java Python PHP Ruby JS Top 5 Languages Number of developers with at least one repository using the language
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Node.JS is a Moon A proportional representation of Node.js vs all other JS.
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Liverpool Sheffield Leeds Birmingham Manchester Top 5 Cities For Ruby developers, in the North West…
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Unity Growth Trend, in Repositories
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Go Uptake, in Repositories
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An immediate pipeline for recruitment Value for our time investment
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