The Developer Hiring Blog

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.

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%…

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…

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.…

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…