Hiring Questions

As a big Starbucks fan and avid traveller I have noticed a trend while travelling whether its from Toronto to Texas to California... All Starbucks employees seem to have a very similar personality...

Hiring Job Offer Jobs

asked Feb 28 '11 at 12:14

Chain
313 points

I've heard from many successful entrepreneurs that only your job as a startup founder is to constantly be creating systems; However, There's a huge trade-off though between trying new experiments...

Hiring Scale

asked Mar 2 '11 at 04:32

Andy Cook
2,309 points

So, I was reading Guy Kawasaki's questions to ask a startup. One of them is to ask if you can speak with one of the investors on the Board of Directors. A startup that offered me a job asked me if...

Hiring Employees Investors

asked Jan 26 '11 at 17:41

Jason
139 points

We're a small (but growing) consulting firm with software to be developed as a side stream (yes, I know this is an original story :)). 3 partners, equal equity. We've worked with a few people in...

Hiring Equity Employees Salary

asked Jan 16 '11 at 02:09

Sean
1,149 points

In my job hunt, it's incredibly common for me to run into startups that have say 3 people and then have the CTO tell me "We just closed a round of funding, so we're looking to hire 3 or 4 more...

Hiring Venture Capital Employees

asked Jan 23 '11 at 18:57

Jason
139 points

Warren Buffet says, "Hire people based on Passion,Intelligence and Integrity." People's passion is visible in the first meeting, and intelligence comes out in a couple of hours in a discussion, but...

Co-Founder Hiring

asked Jan 5 '11 at 07:55

Syed
445 points

Specifically •How did you find them? (craigslist-social networks-newspaper ads- etc) •How did your interview them? (Phone/Skype video chat etc) •How did you get passed the skepticism barrier?...

Hiring Team Expanding

asked Dec 3 '10 at 05:44

Sergio Alvarez
46 points

Suppose someone needs to incorprate a C-corp, for a high tech high growth business. How does option pool size at the time of incorporation impact valuation and funding. Or it only matters how...

Funding Hiring Venture Capital Seed Funding Stock Options

asked Dec 13 '10 at 21:30

Jewelthief
151 points

For software hackers/developers there are many. However, I need a hardware guy (or girl?) for a relatively small project. Is there a site where I can search for people and see ranks,...

Hiring Development

asked Nov 27 '10 at 15:34

Tzury Bar Yochay
113 points

I'm a programmer and a student and I've got lots of ideas/proposals etc for projects. At what point do I start hiring other programmers to help out?

Hiring

asked Nov 18 '10 at 05:32

Moshe
409 points

I'll be writing my own web-site soon, and some parts of it I plan to outsource to developers (either people I know, or if I won't find any - developers from "freelancers sites"). Has anyone who...

Hiring Outsourcing

asked Nov 3 '10 at 08:44

Oren A
141 points

I am in the process of moving my home website business into commercial office space because I need to hire an employee (or two) to help with all of the work. I need to hire a writer - but the...

Hiring Employees

asked Jul 19 '10 at 23:02

Steampunk
166 points

I think I am pretty good (having dealt with tons of contractor developers) at staying within independent contractor rules and keeping the Labor Department at bay, when it comes to using...

Hiring Legal Virtual Workforce Independent Contractor

asked Aug 10 '10 at 08:17

Apollo Sinkevicius
3,323 points

I think we are all faced with this issue: we got an application from someone and we don't want to accept it. The most typical case is for employment. In my project I get many more types and very...

Hiring

asked May 19 '10 at 04:50

J. Pablo Fernández
412 points

What's your opinion? Should US-based startup hire offshore web developers to reduce costs? Is it worth it? How would you find them? How much would you pay them per hour of work?

Hiring Development Salary

asked May 28 '10 at 04:14

Pawel A
191 points

So here's the deal..I have a developed product and for the next few months all I need is someone to support me with a presales call if necessary and or keep my demo and infrastructure going until I...

Hiring

asked Apr 22 '10 at 05:58

Stacey
484 points

Has anyone hired a commercial cleaner in the past? If so, how did you choose the right cleaning company? What was important for you when looking for a commercial cleaner? Also, what where the...

Hiring

asked May 14 '10 at 02:46

Jed Regan
266 points

I am about to launch a website, which I got created through a freelancer. However, I am not very pleased with freelancer's performance and plan to hire someone full-time to make required iterations...

Hiring Development Employees Design

asked Apr 2 '10 at 03:32

Joydeep
185 points

We're doing some hiring at a very high level for a VP Marketing candidate and I'm aware of the general advice that it's best to network into folks for roles like these (we had lots of success doing...

Recruiting Hiring

asked Apr 7 '10 at 15:58

Randfish
1,001 points

This field seems really shady, so searching for "background check" online is pretty disappointing. Any suggestions?

Hiring

asked Apr 16 '10 at 06:33

Michael Pryor
2,250 points