Developers: How to get Hired by Every Startup You Contact

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Post by brianscordato » Thu, May 24, 2012, 4:16 AM UTC

Developers: How to get Hired by Every Startup You Contact
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Re: Developers: How to get Hired by Every Startup You Contact

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Post by thedaydreamer » Thu, May 24, 2012, 4:22 AM UTC

Send them your portfolio and tell them why and how you can be very helpful to them. Easy ?

Re: Developers: How to get Hired by Every Startup You Contact

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Post by brianscordato » Thu, May 24, 2012, 4:32 AM UTC

thedaydreamer wrote: post #2

Send them your portfolio and tell them why and how you can be very helpful to them. Easy ?

For front-end dev, absolutely. Back-end is trickier to judge for someone less tech-savvy.

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Post by schme » Thu, May 24, 2012, 5:10 AM UTC

I really wish someone would post one of these related to students still in school (we need to work too). Or is the field so competitive the posts would make no difference?

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Post by slantyyz » Thu, May 24, 2012, 5:32 AM UTC

I find it interesting that the OP seems to think that being a lead developer and being a CTO are the same.

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Post by autarch » Thu, May 24, 2012, 5:52 AM UTC

slantyyz wrote: post #5

I find it interesting that the OP seems to think that being a lead developer and being a CTO are the same.

Well, as employee #2 of a startup, they are for a little while at least.

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Post by technoir » Thu, May 24, 2012, 5:53 AM UTC

Surprised this guy didn't write an article on how to sell his position to developers. In spite of claiming to understand the current labor market for development talent, it appears he's still got it backwards.

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Post by noelwelsh » Thu, May 24, 2012, 5:53 AM UTC

Generally good stuff. Not sending a resume is interesting -- I bet there are people who would expect one and argue the opposite.

What really struck me were two things:

- Outsourcing the MVP. I've seen a few people do it but it seems a very expensive way to get started. Wouldn't it be easier to pitch for funding/a technical partner without this?

- Building a recommendation engine in Ruby? Really? I've never used Ruby for numeric code but I wouldn't think it would be particularly fast and it doesn't have libraries equivalent NumPy AFAIK.

(Don't feel you have to vote this up. I'm on 666 karma right now. ;-)

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Post by jakejake » Thu, May 24, 2012, 5:54 AM UTC

schme wrote: post #4

I really wish someone would post one of these related to students still in school (we need to work too). Or is the field so competitive the posts would make no difference?

There's probably plenty of startups or consulting gigs that would be happy to have a student. Full-time developer positions maybe not so much just because you wouldn't be able to show up to the office 9-5 every day and still go to class.

My advice would be to build up your portfolio with personal dev projects, fork projects on github, etc. The more of that you do it's likely people will even start contacting you with offers.

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Post by yxhuvud » Thu, May 24, 2012, 5:58 AM UTC

slantyyz wrote: post #5

I find it interesting that the OP seems to think that being a lead developer and being a CTO are the same.

To be fair, it often is the same for startups.