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I suggest looking outside of NYC for a developer that would be willing to move to NYC. In Silicon Valley, the talent pool is very picked over. I suggest to any
by pm24601 12y ago
I suggest looking outside of NYC for a developer that would be willing to move to NYC.
In Silicon Valley, the talent pool is very picked over. I suggest to anyone in SV to look outside the immediate area. Post ads in Kansas or Michigan. Some place where getting paid a NYC salary seems great.
You have to get creative.
Even if there was a dramatic increase in engineers - there is no guarantee that they would be interested in cafe.com.
I did look at your job postings and I do have some suggestions:
1. List your tech stack - not as a requirement but just to let applicants know what they are signing up for.
2. List your tech stack for SEO purposes- I can't think of any google search that would put the cafe.com jobs high on the list.
3. What are you doing to market the job - be aggressive with linkedin, github, stackoverflow. Every single week I get interview requests by all three channels.
If you are not aggressively recruiting people who are not actively looking then you are missing the boat.
The last time I actively looked for a job was a decade ago. Most job connections come to me via friend/network/etc.
- morgante 12y agoThanks for the feedback! We do actively recruit outside the NYC area, but could probably ramp this up somewhat (admittedly, recruiting is not my favorite part of the job). We avoided listing our tech stack because people frequently read it as a requirement, but I think you're right. Will add it soon. We aggressively recruit on LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and AngelList, but the majority of our qualified applicants have actually come through my network and Hacker News. I'm trying to expand this though, particularly because I want to avoid building a mirror image engineering team (young, white, males in their 20s).