The Developer Hiring Blog

For developers, the single biggest factor in evaluating a job offer is the technology stack they’ll be using. The tools and technologies selected as part of a company’s core tech stack will heavily impact that company’s ability to develop and deploy code quickly and to scale seamlessly. Know what to highlight to candidates about your tech stack.

We spoke to Adam Rabinovitch, Global Technical Recruiting Lead and Evangelist at Beamery about how to do meaningful employer branding, how to be a successful recruiter in 2020 and how sometimes you do not hire a candidate, but might end-up teaching them something new. Tell us a bit about yourself and your position at beamery.…

Why Host Events? Events are a fantastic way to grow, activate and retain your community members and are engaging for employees as well. When I worked on the developer community team at Keen IO from 2015-2017, I helped host a ton of events. By the end of my time there, I think I’d personally helped…

We spoke with the founder of WorkShape.io and the curator of Recruiting Brainfood about the powershift from recruiters to candidates, hard conversations with hiring managers, and how the talent shortage makes tech recruiting a dependable career.

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In order to win tech talent over from your competitors, you need to focus on revamping your employer brand to make sure it holds strong appeal to the software engineers you’re hoping to recruit. Here are some key elements of building a developer-friendly employer brand.

When consulting to the companies advertising on the Talent platform, we see a repetition in most pressing challenges across industries and company sizes. We might hear from recruiters “We need to find more (quality) candidates.” A sourcer might say: “We need to find talent with a limited recruiting budget” or talent acquisition managers tell us…

The increasing demand for developers means recruiters need to up their game. The developers that you’re recruiting don’t expect you to have expertise in the skills that you’re recruiting for. Otherwise, you’d be competing with them for their job. But you do need to know enough to speak to the skill set in the job…

If you are onboarding your first new hires this year, here are 3 things to keep in mind.

We spoke to Enrico Mayor, board member of Swiss shareholder services provider DEVIGUS, about the time he convinced his father to switch to Stack Overflow Talent and embarked on a two-week recruiting sprint to backfill a critical position.   You got three developers sign contracts in two weeks. Tell us about that. We had been working…

There are two universal truths about developer hiring: there are not enough developers on the open market to fill every single job listing, and most developers are already employed.