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Thought bootcamps were a waste until a founder in Kitchener showed me his hiring sheet
I went to a small startup meetup in Kitchener last month mostly for the free pizza, and I ended up talking to this guy who runs a 12 person company. I had always rolled my eyes at coding bootcamp grads, I figured six months of learning could not compare to a real CS degree. Then he pulled out his laptop and showed me the actual spreadsheet he uses for hiring, and three of his last five devs came out of a bootcamp in Toronto. He said the reason was simple, those people had shipped four or five small projects already, so he could see their work instead of guessing from a resume. That hit me because my own cofounder and I spent almost a year hunting for a technical hire and kept passing over anyone without a degree. We were basically filtering out the exact people who had proof of work sitting in a GitHub repo. Now I look at candidate projects before I even read the education section. Has anyone else here changed how they screen technical hires, and what actually worked for you?
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anthony88312d ago
What made you finally start looking past the degree line on a resume? For us it was a take home test that went bad, we gave one to a guy with a masters and he could not explain his own code, then a self taught kid walked us through a scrappy app he built to track his gym lifts and it was clean and worked. So we flipped the order, now I skim their projects first and the resume last. The one thing I would say is be careful with take homes, we switched to paid small tasks because asking for free work weeds out good people who just have jobs already. We also started asking for a link to one thing they built and a two minute story about what broke and how they fixed it, that tells you way more than any list of schools.
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