How to hire awesome developers!

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Are you able to attract the best developers for your fast-growing team? Do you know what they do, and where they are? Are you in the process of forming the best team, that will take you a long way? Here are few tips to attract & hire some of the best developers. Read the article here - http://aishwaryajain.com/2014/07/21/hire-awesome-developers/

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Hiring Developers?Some tips to hire the best ones, for fast-growing startups!

Where are they?

USA India China

Russia

Vietnam

Sweden

Antartica? Maybe!

Australia

Brazil

Germany

Ghana

Argentina

UK

They are everywhere!

& are most active on

Open source Projects & Communities

Competitive coding sites..

#IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

#haskell

#php

#security

#crypto#github

#html5 #whatwg

#gruntjs

#yeoman

#javascript

#jquery #angularjs

#requirejs

#node.js

#css #httpd

#svg #webgl

#webrtc

#vb.net

#C#

Developer events conferences & Hackathons

Yes, They are everywhere!

But, how do you ATTRACT them?

FirstKNOW WHAT THEY LOVE..Freedom & FlexibilityReal-world problems CaffineCodeCodeCodeCode

What do you offer/HAVE?

Good, Constructive Work Atmosphere

Open minded, smart, supportive people!

Flexibility &

transparency

Clear Short & Long term

goals

Do you HAVE all of these?Awesome devs are focused and want grow fast!

now that

You know where they are

And

what they like & Look for!

Create a kickass career’s page & Job description

Talk about all the amazing things you do & the things mentioned here!

Check this one - https://www.themuse.com/companies/facebook

Get started!

start publicising!!!

&

Promote ON

Few things that helps..

Talking about your Work Culture, Tech Stack on blogs, media, etc., regularly

Maintaining an Engineering blog, this gets a lot of attention from the developers

Contribution by your Developers in forums like stackoverflow, quora, etc.

Paid internship offers to young developers helps a lot in fresher hiring!

Organizing Hackathons, hack-nights, etc., on your products. This helps you personally meet some really good developer talent!

Sponsor/Speak at developer events!

A good hire will make a

big DIFFERENCE!

Need Help?

Aishwarya Jain

@ash3003

/in/ash3003

www.aishwaryajain.com | aj@aishwaryajain.com

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