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Ask HN: Best places other than HN to recruit PHP devs?
Hiya!
So, I'm about to be looking for a new senior dev for the startup I'm running, and we need a slightly unusual skillset.
Obviously I'm going to be posting on HN's "Hiring?" thread, but other than that, I'm wondering if people could suggest any other good places to look for devs who fit the bill.
Specific skills we'll need include PHP, MySQL, some JQuery, and strong statistical math skills - it's the last one that makes this somewhat tricky. It's a remote job, ideally +-5 hr of GMT timezone-wise.
Any suggestions? Have you found a good dev somewhere unexpected in the past?
P.S. Apologies if this comes across as a stealth job ad - really not meant that way. I am honestly looking for places to find applicants, not applicants directly (I figure they'll be reading the monthly "hiring" thread anyway.)
- mkal_tsr 12y agoHonestly, I haven't found much luck on any for-hire/freelance oriented site ... they all just "feel" insincere/fake wrt quality of skillset, communication skills, process management, etc. That's one of the things that actually brought me to HN was that people were walking the walk instead of just talking. Semi-related, I'll be keeping an eye out for that posting later ;-)
- thenomad 12y agoIt'll be in the regular HN "Hiring?" thread ;)
- Oras 12y agoSince its remote job, try oDesk for small projects and see how it goes. You have to realize that there will be pain in the beginning until you get what you want. Another place is to search LinkedIn by yourself for developers and approach them directly.
- thenomad 12y agoThat's something we're considering, but as you say it's likely to be kinda painful. We'd ideally prefer to get higher-quality developer contacts. The LinkedIn suggestion is excellent - thanks!
- mswen 12y agoyou could try the job board at http://www.datasciencecentral.com http://www.datasciencecentral.com I haven't used it but most of the people visiting this site combine statistical knowledge and programming skills.
- thenomad 12y agoFantastic - thanks! I shall indeed check that out.