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Ask HN: How are you hiring programmers?
What have been your most successful approaches to finding and hiring programmers? I've tried job sites (including Stack Overflow careers AND their candidate search), recruiters, social media, all with mixed results. I've got a decent team now, but I still need more excellent devs. What works for you all?
- czbond 12y agoIt's exactly like sales. Each of those channels work, bring a different type of lead, and need to be nurtured differently. It is a constant, slow process unless you blindly overpay. You're always working the talent pool - priming candidates, vetting them even when you're not hiring. In house vs out of house, remote vs local can all be managed.
- lxfontes 12y agoMake it a team effort: "Guys, we need another front-end dev. Let me know if you have someone in mind." As a more general note: Finding the right candidate doesn't start when the job post is up online. You need to be constantly looking and vetting people ( don't need to tell them ;) ), so you'll have someone already in mind when the position is available.
- hkarthik 12y agoWork on having some inbound candidate flow by increasing awareness of your engineering team's brand. Start an engineering blog, and make sure you put out some high quality content, with a "we're hiring" link at the bottom of every post. Make sure that you measure and try to drive traffic to these posts. Have everyone on your team that is interested help contribute a blog post or two. Encourage open source contributions from your team. That will help them connect with other talent that might be looking. Keep prospects warm even while you have no headcount needs so keep your pipeline from ever completely drying up. And lastly, hire remote (or generously relocate) if you can't find enough developers in your local area.