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Developers, talk to a VC before a recruitment agency
- nbauman 16y agoThis is a really good point. Also - as a startup, we typically got better candidates who came through our investors. Certain type of candidate was the one that knew where to look. If you're in Los Angeles / SoCal - talk to Mark Suster at GRP Ventures. He's communicated that just about everyone in his portfolio is hiring.
- earl 16y agoJust make sure you've never left a job in under 10 years, even if you got an enormous raise or your boss was an ass or you got a much better situation out of it. In fact, you should be willing to tolerate a shit situation and lower pay for years just to prove your loyalty. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job-hoppers-never-they-make-terrible-employees/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job... ps -- make sure never to look out for #1 -- that's for companies, not you, silly employee
- jefe78 16y agoGreat article. We're currently looking for developers in the Ottawa/Montreal area in python if anyone wants to drop me a line!
- nivertech 16y agoSome Israeli VCs I know, actually have in-house recruitment agency.
- nbauman 16y agoGoogle Ventures has this too.
- mdwrigh2 16y agoHaving looked at their portfolio, I'd be interested in talking to their in in-house recruitment agency. Do you know how someone could go about contacting them?
- nbauman 16y agoThis is all public but I don't really have any close personal connections that lead to her. http://twitter.com/#!/lgrenawalt http://twitter.com/#!/lgrenawalt http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaygrenawalt http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaygrenawalt
- nathanh 16y agoI've updated the post with a contact at Google Ventures.
- VladRussian 16y agoif i were acquainted with a VC ... :)
- hurricane 16y agohi Vlad!
- jefe78 16y agohi hurricane!
- hurricane 16y agowhats up jefe!
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- VladRussian 16y agohi! to you too that way i know a bunch of VC :) Even my VC-handshaking friends after founding/CTOing several startups, still so far ended up like me - architectors or principal level engineers in established companies.
- hurricane 16y ago:) Well I guess that is more job security depending on what you want. You can always go back to doing startups, plus you will know a bunch of other engineers who may hop on board with you.
- hurricane 16y agoCouldn't agree more. I work at Thomvest Ventures and almost every portfolio company we have is hiring (a few additional aren't listed because they are in stealth but are about to go into ramp mode). Have quite a few friends working on funded startups who are looking to hire as well. If you know the type of work you want to do, have a list of some of the stuff you have coded/what languages you know, and/or are interested in a specific company we have feel free to shoot me an email and I will try to help out (info is on Nathan's blog).
- acconrad 16y agoThis makes something like Mixtent.com more valuable...since you now have people vouching for developers/companies, you could probably do the same thing for places to work.
- shalmanese 16y agoThe other hidden benefit to this is that VCs are usually the only way for stealth mode companies to be hiring.