Engineers Questions

I'm a non-technical founder who is hiring my first employee, a Ruby on Rails engineer. While I'm great at execution on the business end, I'm clueless when it comes to the actual tech that my...

Hiring Interviews Founders Non Technical Engineers

asked Jun 12 '15 at 00:11

Mary Gould
12 points

Should you ask for college transcripts or a copy of the college degree when hiring software engineers? Wouldn't it be easy to just lie on the resume otherwise and state you have a PhD from Harvard?

Hiring Interviews Education College Engineers

asked Aug 30 '14 at 18:13

Darin Swint
11 points

I'm moving my two-person startup to San Francisco and looking to hire a Rails engineer there.Given how expensive the cost of living is there, what is a decent salary for a full-time, intermediate...

Hiring Salary Developers Engineers Ruby On Rails

asked Jun 12 '15 at 13:55

Robert Cooperman
12 points

What do you think about giving engineers a small software assignment that they complete at home and send over before scheduling an interview. This would really help an employer save both their and...

Hiring Employees Human Resources Engineers Software Engineers

asked May 9 '14 at 16:40

Ruth Mercedes
7 points

What type of code samples should you show to a prospective employer when all your work has been for other companies? I don't currently have any open source contributions that employers can look...

Hiring Employees Employers Engineers

asked May 9 '14 at 14:16

Kevin Sloane
7 points

When hiring software engineers, should you place more weight on the expertise of the specific language or framework you are using, or overall skill and experience.i.e. A great engineer with 10+...

Recruiting Hiring Engineers Software Engineers

asked Apr 18 '14 at 00:12

William Jensen
14 points

Is it better to have software engineering candidates code during the interview or let them do it from home?Since most engineers are introverts, my guess would be that allowing them to code from...

Recruiting Interviews Engineers

asked Apr 1 '14 at 14:59

William Thomas
7 points

What are the most often occurring things that developers do due to which they don't get hired?

Recruiting Hiring Jobs Engineers

asked Mar 29 '14 at 21:57

Kara Tyler
2 points

I'm hiring a software engineer and have gotten a boat load of resumes. I can easily rule out the obvious ones based on geography (since I can't afford to pay someone to relocate).What are some...

Recruiting Hiring Engineers

asked Mar 28 '14 at 17:29

Rufus Joyce
17 points

I have several years of experience developing software and managing small teams. But I struggle with learning about algorithms. Does that put a huge negative on me being a CTO in the near...

Software CTO Development Engineers

asked Feb 26 '14 at 15:16

Oscar Bennett
35 points

Joel Spolsky is always writing about how companies should treat and offer the best to their developers in order to be able to get the best of them. As a startup, when the time comes and you do need...

Recruiting Hiring Incentives Developers Engineers

asked Oct 10 '09 at 12:44

Ricardo
4,815 points