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How realistic is to find one lead engineer who knows many prgramming languages?

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Re: How realistic is to find one lead engineer who knows many prgramming languages?

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It's not unrealistic, I personally code on all these technologies (primarily on iOS and android native), but such engineer can be pretty costly and might not come on equity only easily. Minimum experience of such engineer should be 6 to 10 (I'm 10) and they are either working on a pretty niche good paying job or running their own stuff, or selling their services as outsourcing firm (I do this, and have team of 30 oth…

Thanks for your input. We are actually trying to get away from this way of working because it does not work any more. As we have an MVP, we want to get towards some initial traction and if feedback leads us to some direction then take aim in that direction and then if everything goes well then fundraise. Your type of company has great value early on to get an MVP or MDP but we got to a point where we want in house pe…

I hear you, so apart from hiring an agency, my advise remains stick to following:-

1. Hire at least 3 people and not 1. 2. One Can be senior with an ability to work on multiple techs, while other 2 can be even fresh engineers (around or under 6 months of exp in their respective technology i.e android or iOS etc) and they shall scale themselves up in good company (It's tried and tested by many entrepreneurs, including myself). 3. Utilize that senior tech guy more like CTO, architect, and backbone programmer (one who takes care of DB, APIs, troubleshooting, guiding, figuring out libraries to use, pros and cons of various tech. stakes etc) and remaining 2 fresh would do all sort of coding in less cost.

Re: How realistic is to find one lead engineer who knows many prgramming languages?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your input. We are actually trying to get away from this way of working because it does not work any more. As we have an MVP, we want to get towards some initial traction and if feedback leads us to some direction then take aim in that direction and then if everything goes well then fundraise. Your type of company has great value early on to get an MVP or MDP but we got to a point where we want in house pe…

I hear you, so apart from hiring an agency, my advise remains stick to following:- 1. Hire at least 3 people and not 1. 2. One Can be senior with an ability to work on multiple techs, while other 2 can be even fresh engineers (around or under 6 months of exp in their respective technology i.e android or iOS etc) and they shall scale themselves up in good company (It's tried and tested by many entrepreneurs, including…

Thanks for your advice!

Re: How realistic is to find one lead engineer who knows many prgramming languages?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hear you, so apart from hiring an agency, my advise remains stick to following:- 1. Hire at least 3 people and not 1. 2. One Can be senior with an ability to work on multiple techs, while other 2 can be even fresh engineers (around or under 6 months of exp in their respective technology i.e android or iOS etc) and they shall scale themselves up in good company (It's tried and tested by many entrepreneurs, including…

Thanks for your advice!

np, take care.

Re: How realistic is to find one lead engineer who knows many prgramming languages?

#14

Depends on what level of knowledge you need. If it's a run-of-the-mill social app then it shouldn't be too hard finding someone that knows "enough" to get the job done. I'll say this, though; in general, the types of people that know it "all" would prefer not to work in PHP.

Thanks Davel for your input. Out of curiousity what would be the one that is more favorable to PHP. Thanks

Sarcastically: mostly anything.

Realistically: mostly anything, e.g., Rails, NodeJS, Elixir. Even Java, but I'd lean away from that from a resource perspective.

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