Ask HN: How do you hire top talent in 2019?

Post by Chyzwar » Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 2:48 PM UTC

yani wrote: post #39

Chyzwar wrote: post #14

Did you tried Github?

Yes, 1.5 years ago and the results were poor. Has anything changes during that time? Is it worth another look?

Maybe you can try to leverage Github API to search for possible candidates. If your company is open for the remote you can find some talented people that are interested in tech/business domain that you operate.

  https://www.socialtalent.com/blog/recruitment/how-to-use-github-to-find-super-talented-developers
  https://devskiller.com/source-developers-from-github/

I am not in a position to recruit people. But I would be interested to know if this approach can work.

Post by EnderMB » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

ldasj wrote: post #25

EnderMB wrote: post #24

In my limited experience of hiring, there are only two consistent rules that apply: 1. Be a top company - either have a big name people want to work for, or a (provably) talented team that do notable work. Everyone bullshits their way around this, but most devs sniff that out pretty quickly. 2. Pay more than others. It's really as simple as that. When my ex-employers were well-known to people in our circles, we had a…

I am amazed how many companies do the exact opposite. Most small and no-name companies I applied to interview like Google and pay less than average. Also, not sure what's with all the panel interviews. Everybody and their grandma wants to pitch in on the new guy.

I think a lot of it is down to people overinflating the importance of their work, or the qualifications of their team. You could have a legitimately talented team and have delivered successful projects for big-name companies, but I'd be willing to bet that there are half a dozen other companies within the same city with similar size clients, a similarly-skilled team, and equivalent work.

It's all marketing. A company might sell the fact that you're doing large-scale work for global clients, when in reality you're building shitty CRUD apps for big-name companies that have farmed out the work because it's short-term work for a single department.

The panel interview is always a weird one. I've known a few places do it, and it's usually because the company is flat enough that certain individuals want to assert control over certain groups of people. My old place did panel interviews, with leads from design, tech, and PM's sitting in to ensure they have influence on that team.

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