#hiring (13 links)
- The Last Technical Interview. Today we will pour one out for the… | by Steve Yegge | Medium steve-yegge.medium.com
Great diagnosis, not great solution.
- The Job Market Is Frozen - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
Good Grauniad summary.
- Progression at Monzo progression.monzo.com
<blockquote>Progression frameworks are tools that help us evaluate and pay our staff consistently, and help people understand how to progress in their work. We've put them here for everyone at Monzo (and anyone in the world!) to use.</blockquote>
<blockquote>This is why you’ve been giving bad technical interviews all this time: bad interviews are easier to give. They require less thought and creativity and effort on your part. These techniques are tricky to define and tough to follow. But that’s what hiring is like. It’s really hard, and it always takes much longer than you hope it will. The rules are fuzzy, and there are no acid tests that can be applied. </blockquote>
- Crispy Fried Software Ltd - Hiring your first employee (a UK guide) blog.crispyfriedsoftware.com
- Blogging Innovation » How to Hire and Manage Consultants business-strategy-innovation.com
Useful from the other side i.e. how to be hired as a consultant and not suck.
- Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money | Software by Rob softwarebyrob.com
More money isn't one of them.
"Here’s some things I’d recommend that you consider if you’re looking to get hired into a creative company". Particularly like this part: "don’t be scared to big-up other people you worked with".
Startups that hire incorrectly fail. They don’t probably fail, or maybe fail. They just plain fail.
Point 5: " Web development is a precise field. Leaving out one character of code can render an entire website useless. Good web developers always focus on making sure they understand and deliver things as accurate as possible."