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Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

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Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#21
post #10

I do hope that by "recruiters" they mean actual hiring managers and not actual technical recruiters. :-/

We are encouraging companies to bring their engineers and recruiters, so that you can talk to someone who knows what you're saying and talk to someone who can actually continue the hiring process.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#22
post #5

Looks awesome! Though by my calculations, the counter will get to 0 days 0 hrs 0 min 0 sec just before midnight EDT on July 16, which is a full 14 hours before the event (but the jquery countdown they're using is probably using the browser's regional time).

Yeah... leave it up to stupid late-night mistakes. Can you believe I programmed this with no javascript experience? (note, I cheated, themeforrest did some of the work and I just REALLY cleaned it up, organized, etc)

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#23
post #10

I do hope that by "recruiters" they mean actual hiring managers and not actual technical recruiters. :-/

When I was there last time, all of them were hiring managers and not recruiters. I ended up with 6 companies trying to recruit me, 3 of them were from startups I had never heard of. It was kind of cool seeing companies fight over you, since usually it's the other way around.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#26
post #15
post #3

I live near here and volunteer to let awesome developers crash on my couches if it helps you get across the country to do this.

How can I contact you?

the main contact info on the hacker fair website will work, and as we get more dojo volunteers to take surfers it will be a scaling solution.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#27
post #10

I do hope that by "recruiters" they mean actual hiring managers and not actual technical recruiters. :-/

What we're trying to do is have one person with the technical chops to figure out if candidates are good and one person with the power to move the candidate's file along in the hiring process. Can you think of an appropriate noun which represents the second group of people? I don't know what the proper parent class of that field is titled.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#28
post #10

I do hope that by "recruiters" they mean actual hiring managers and not actual technical recruiters. :-/

When I was there last time, all of them were hiring managers and not recruiters. I ended up with 6 companies trying to recruit me, 3 of them were from startups I had never heard of. It was kind of cool seeing companies fight over you, since usually it's the other way around.

Did the companies that saw you at the fair invite you for a more formal interview process, or did they make their minds up there?

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#30

Once again, if you decide to use embedded fonts on your website, please always give it a look on Windows first. Font rendering of embedded fonts on Windows can be really terrible, as it is the case of this website.

Not sure what you are referring to... Try Chrome on Windows and get the Extension called "Change Font Family Style".

I use Lucida Grande for all websites. You are in control my friend.

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