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How to Prioritize Developer Roles in a Startup
Your company just made the jump from idea to reality. You got the funding to hire a core team, but don’t have any founders with serious technical skills. As you prepare to start building your product,...
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Words That Set Off Developers’ BS Detectors
Developers are a clever bunch. They’re trained to break a problem into logical chunks so that a computer can perform them the same every time. If you’re looking to hire them, your job listing will...
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Job Listing Keywords: What Developers Search for vs. What Companies
Supply and demand in the marketplace for tech talent have long since shifted in favour of the candidates. In recruiting circles, it’s referred to as a candidate-driven market. At the same time, the...
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Understanding quantified achievements on engineering resumes
Resume best practices are always shifting. What sections do you include? Do you put skills on there? Should you include all my jobs, including when you worked as a busboy in high school? This recent...
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The Idea of the Minimum Viable Candidate
Speaking to your hiring manager about an open position on the engineering team can be a true test of patience. Not only do they ask for someone with experience across all 47 technologies in your tech...
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Why You Should Be Hiring (More) Junior Developers
In any field, experience is one of the main deciding factors used by hiring managers to pick the right candidate. Each field has its own system for how many years a person has to spend working in that...
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The Top 10 Frameworks and What Tech Recruiters Need to Know About Them
As programming matures and application development becomes more complex, developers need more than just an understanding of programming languages. They need to know the frameworks that make creating...
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The Ultimate Tech Recruiting Event Checklist
In an era where so much of the recruiting process happens online, in-person recruiting events can seem out of place or old fashioned. But make no mistake: when properly utilized and executed, live...
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Six Tech Recruiting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) You Need to Measure
Demand for IT expertise is skyrocketing. For financial institutions, insurance agencies, law firms, healthcare companies, and even retail businesses, technology is no longer a cost center; cloud...
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Get Your (Arti)facts Right — Eight Examples of Developer-Driven Employer...
Developers are in demand. Big demand—“knowledge of software development principles” appeared in more than 580,000 job descriptions this year. It’s no surprise, then, that skilled developers top the...
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12 Developer Types Recruiters Need to Know About
In any field, different people play different roles in achieving the field’s goals. This is especially true of developers: not only do developers have different roles, but they also often have very...
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Making Remote Work at Stack Overflow – Interview Ilana Yitzhaki, Senior...
Ilana Yitzhaki talks about how to create a great experience for employees in three Stack Overflow offices and remote Stackers across 14 countries. What does your current organizational setup look like...
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Why Your Recruiting Strategy Should Focus on Active and Passive Candidates Alike
There are two universal truths about developer hiring: there are not enough developers on the open market to fill every single job listing, and most developers are already employed. Here’s a sobering...
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“Dad, let’s fire our external recruiter, I think I can do better.”
We spoke to Enrico Mayor, board member of Swiss shareholder services provider DEVIGUS, about the time he convinced his father to switch to Stack Overflow Talent and embarked on a two-week recruiting...
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3 ways to make onboarding less overwhelming for developers
Setting up an efficient and effective onboarding process for new technical hires is crucial to make sure new team members feel welcome and can get productive as soon as possible. For those reasons, it...
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4 tips for building knowledge in tech recruiting
The increasing demand for developers means recruiters need to up their game. The developers that you’re recruiting don’t expect you to have expertise in the skills that you’re recruiting for....
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How the right metrics help you achieve your tech recruiting goals
When consulting to the companies advertising on the Talent platform, we see a repetition in most pressing challenges across industries and company sizes. We might hear from recruiters “We need to find...
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How to do a developer-friendly employer brand overhaul for 2020
Versatile and highly skilled developer talent can be tough to find. While there are more than 223,000 open job listings for software developers in the United States alone, only 35,000 computer science...
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Stack Overflow salary reports are out now – how does your company compare?
Due to the extensive data we get from our annual developer survey, we are able to make predictions on developer compensation. As a result, we offer this information to employers, to see how they are...
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Tech recruiting influencer, Hung Lee, on cutting through the noise in 2020.
We spoke with the founder of WorkShape.io and the curator of Recruiting Brainfood about the powershift from recruiters to candidates, hard conversations with hiring managers, and how the talent...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Hosting Inclusive Developer Meetups or Events In Your...
Why Host Events? Events are a fantastic way to grow, activate and retain your community members and are engaging for employees as well. When I worked on the developer community team at Keen IO from...
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“You need to give back to the community” Beamery’s take on successful...
We spoke to Adam Rabinovitch, Global Technical Recruiting Lead and Evangelist at Beamery about how to do meaningful employer branding, how to be a successful recruiter in 2020 and how sometimes you do...
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How Your Tech Stack Can Attract Top Developers
Wondering what developers care most about in their workplace? It’s not the money, the weekly happy hours, or even their coworkers.It’s the code.If your recruiting team is going to make an impact in...
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How tails.com tripled their engineering team with Stack Overflow
We recently chatted with Mario Behrendt, Head of Engineering at tails.com, who used Stack Overflow to hire one-quarter of his engineering team in the last 12 months. We discuss the hiring process and...
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Why mindfulness at work is increasingly becoming a success factor – and how...
We spoke with Erkan Kasap, Mindful Leadership Coach and founder of the Mindful Business Club about why working from home can be an act of mindfulness and the tool for a happier and more productive...
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“Remote means the freedom to work for a top tech company without having to be...
Clevertech is a software development company, building bespoke solutions for clients with complicated challenges in niche industries. With a fully remote team of 200 developers, we spoke with the CEO,...
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How Gen Z’s values will level-up your engineering culture
A new generation is in the beginning stages of entering the workforce. Members of the Gen Z cohort, born between the mid-90s and early 2010 years, are now in their early 20s and seeking out...
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Remote Digest: 10 remote hiring tips to set up best practices for the long haul
As many businesses around the world become 100% remote overnight (Stack Overflow recently went to 100% work from home across all of our offices), every team is challenged to conduct their normal work...
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“You need someone to show you how to teach yourself.”
We spoke to Alexandre Plennevaux, Head of Pedagogy at BeCode, the coding school on a mission to close the skill gap by providing accessible, seven-month inclusive bootcamps across Belgium and...
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“Recruitment is a little bit like dating”. Rodeo’s CTO tells us how it takes...
Tell us a bit about your role at Rodeo. My role is chief technology officer, which means that I am responsible for anything tech-related. When I joined Rodeo about nine months ago, there were two...
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3 stats employers need to know about Gen Z
In the world of engineering and product development, one of the first lessons that we learn is that “you are not your customer.” When we build software, we have a dramatically different worldview than...
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How to run successful developer interviews remotely.
Everyone has their own opinions on the nuances of interviewing developers, but interviewing candidates virtually presents its own set of challenges. Here are a few tips to help you effectively...
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Why you should consider continuous remote options for your engineering team.
With the new situation, many people are adjusting to working remotely. While right now your team might be de facto remote, there is also the case to be made for seeing this as an opportunity to...
View ArticlePodcast 250: How we hire developers at Stack
This week we chat about Paul’s new super computer, Sara’s epiphany on how to ace code screenings, and Ben’s realization that other industries could learn a thing or two from the way software companies...
View ArticleDeveloper Interview: Vlad Kliatchko, Global Head of Engineering at Bloomberg
Vlad Kliatchko spends his time leading a diverse team of programmers and networking experts, finding ways to solve technical problems and build advanced systems that fuel the spread of information on...
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