Podcast 250: How we hire developers at Stack
Hard lessons learned from flunking your first few code screenings.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The Developer Hiring Blog
Millions of developers around the world love Stack Overflow. We help companies reach and engage them. Read our updates on employer branding trends, recruiting success stories, and hiring best practices.
Why you should consider continuous remote options for your engineering team.
With the new situation, many people are adjusting to working remotely. While right now your team might be de facto remote, there is also the case to be made for seeing this as an opportunity to consider a remote or hybrid team as a lasting option. Allowing developers to work from wherever they’re located is…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
How to run successful developer interviews remotely.
Everyone has their own opinions on the nuances of interviewing developers, but interviewing candidates virtually presents its own set of challenges. Here are a few tips to help you effectively evaluate remote developers and create a best-in-class remote interview experience. Before the interview Let them know what to expect. Not only do developers hate brainteaser…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
3 stats employers need to know about Gen Z
Over the next few years, the first batch of true digital natives will enter the workforce. Because of their lifelong technical aptitude, they bring skills to the table that have the potential to seriously level-up your work culture. To get to know them, you need to understand them on a personal level. In this blog post, we round up a set of stats to help you.
“Recruitment is a little bit like dating”. Rodeo’s CTO tells us how it takes more than tech chops to impress him.
We sat down with Hans Leautaud, CTO of Rodeo, and discussed what it was like to build an engineering team from scratch, his three rules for hiring the right candidate, and how it's less about tech than you might think.
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
Remote Digest: 10 remote hiring tips to set up best practices for the long haul
As many businesses around the world become 100% remote overnight (Stack Overflow recently went to 100% work from home across all of our offices), every team is challenged to conduct their normal work under very different circumstances. Even if you were someone who is used to working remotely or managing a remote team, hiring remotely…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
How Gen Z’s values will level-up your engineering culture
Tech workers of the next generation will demand a different workplace - and improve it for everyone. Here’s how you can support them by taking tangible steps to offer mentorship, learning about their commitments to social responsibility, and giving them a clear path to help them define their roles.
“Remote means the freedom to work for a top tech company without having to be based in a big city.”
Clevertech is a software development company, building bespoke solutions for clients with complicated challenges in niche industries. With a fully remote team of 200 developers, we spoke with the CEO, Kuty Shalev, to find out more about who and how they hire on Stack Overflow. What are some of the benefits of being a 100%…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
Why mindfulness at work is increasingly becoming a success factor – and how developers can be role models
We spoke with Erkan Kasap, Mindful Leadership Coach and founder of the Mindful Business Club about why working from home can be an act of mindfulness and the tool for a happier and more productive engineering team. You have been a software developer and manager for the past 20 years and have gained a lot…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
“You need someone to show you how to teach yourself.”
We spoke to Alexandre Plennevaux, Head of Pedagogy at BeCode, the coding school on a mission to close the skill gap by providing accessible, seven-month inclusive bootcamps across Belgium and recruiting students through illegal streaming sites. You run an intense, seven month-long, full-time bootcamp. Students need to be highly motivated. Why are you advertising on…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
How tails.com tripled their engineering team with Stack Overflow
We recently chatted with Mario Behrendt, Head of Engineering at tails.com, who used Stack Overflow to hire one-quarter of his engineering team in the last 12 months. We discuss the hiring process and what quality talent means to him and the tails.com team. Congrats on growing your team! You tripled it in the last year.…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist