Hiring Engineers

Power Up Your Hiring Process from Job Description to Offer SREs: An important cog in high-tech businesses. They are the missing link between development and operations. The staff who square the circle of the desire to develop new blockbuster features and the need to make sure those features don’t break what is there already. Sounds…

6 Tips to Optimize Your Interviewing Process Hiring the wrong engineers can cause almost irreversible damage, especially to a startup. Those early hires will be key drivers of your success. They will be involved in mission-critical decision making and product development. Get the wrong person onboard, and the potential negative impact does not bear thinking…

Strategies to Attract the Best Candidates to Startup Jobs Success as a growing company depends upon the talent you can recruit for your startup jobs. But you’re experiencing some problems. Problems like: You’re finding it hard to hire your first engineer The best software engineers aren’t applying to your job postings You’re finding it’s almost…

How Do You Develop a Successful Hiring Strategy? When hiring for startup jobs, one of the decisions you’ll need to make is whether to internalize your recruitment process or use external recruiters. Get your recruitment strategy wrong, and the cost could be overwhelming. While there is some debate over just how much a poor hire…

Introduction According to a study by Shikhar Ghosh reported in Entrepreneur magazine, 75% of all VC backed startups fail. CB Insights researched the top 20 reasons startups fail. Any guesses? You’d probably expect to see things like ‘failure to pivot’ or ‘poor marketing’ to be at the top, but those actually ranked much lower. The…

Expert Insight to An Industry-Wide Challenge Frontend engineering talent is notoriously hard to retain. And despite drowning their employees in perks like free meals, childcare and transport, even the largest tech companies struggle to retain their best employees. In a sector that is so tight on talent, an inability to retain frontend engineers is especially…

Want More Female Engineers at Your Startup?  Here’s How to Do It! It’s no secret that there is a scarcity of female representation in tech. This is even more true in regards to female software engineers. According to a recent article by Builtin, women make up 26% of the tech field as a whole and…

Hire Talent with a Transparent Recruiting Process You’ve tried hiring DevOps engineers through recruiters, but all you seem to get is a bunch of poor candidates who are underqualified and short on the experience you need. If this sounds like your hiring experience, then you’re using recruiters who ‘throw spaghetti at the wall’. What Is…