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This presentation focuses on how to seek, recruit and retain good talent for your software development team. It also examines external human resource factors such as the job market, the competition and software trends.
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BUILDING A Software Development Team
KHURRAM VIRANI JAKE HIRSCH-ALLEN
KHURRAM VIRANI @viranik
PARTNER Functional Imperative @func_i www.functionalimperative.com
INSTRUCTOR Bitmaker Labs @bitmakerlabs www.bitmakerlabs.com
JAKE HIRSCH-ALLEN @jakehirschallen
PARTNER Functional Imperative @func_i www.functionalimperative.com
DIRECTOR, BD OODA Technologies @oodatech www.ooda.ca
SPM Incentives for Global Health @HealthImpact www.healthimpactfund.org
DEMAND
INDEED.COM Job Trends
"Software Is Eating The World”Marc Andreessen, Aug 2011 Buy A 10x Software Developer: Its The Best Investment You Can Make… Venkatesh Rao, April 2016
TORONTO
TORONTO IS #8 Top 20 Startup Ecosystems Startup Genome Report 2012
SR. DEVELOPER
80K 100K
TORONTO: SALARIES JR. DEVELOPER (NEW CS GRAD)
50K 60K
Big Challenge
SFO YYZ
AND DETERMINING FIT
HIRING
THE GENERALIST
THE SPECIALIST
FRAMEWORK Developer
APPLICATION Developer
VS
"Should I hire a Rails developer for my Django project?"
Depends...
Q:
"Finding Great Developers"Joel Spolsky, 2006
Great developers already have jobs Go where they hang out
INTERVIEWING
(MOSTLY TECHNICAL)
Real World Example: ① Transcript ② Online Portfolio (apps, twitter, blog, github)
③ 30m technical phone screen ④ Code challenge (1-2hr homework)
⑤ 3h on-site technical interview ⑥ Pair programming with Sr. Dev
(on-site half-day session)
INTERVIEWING JUNIORS / NEW GRADS
Jr. Ruby on Rails Developer:
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Technical Questions Some examples
WHITEBOARD: FIZZ BUZZ
WHY CAN'T PROGRAMMERS.. PROGRAM? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmers program.html FIZZ BUZZ TEST http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FizzBuzzTest
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “fizzbuzz”.
More emphasis on Portfolio Conversational approach Solve Architecture problems Soft skills more important
INTERVIEWING SENIOR DEVELOPERS
WHITEBOARD: PARKING LOT
Remember, Conversation: “Why are you doing it this way?” “Have you considered this?” “What if X happens?”
Model the software system that would be used to operate and manage a parking lot that is used for both public and private parking. Tickets can be purchased and rates can change…
WHITEBOARD: CHAT
Remember, Conversation: “Why are you doing it this way?” “Have you considered this?” “What if X happens?”
Model the architecture to build out facebook chat. What open source technologies would you leverage?
”What if we don’t have anyone technical on the team to conduct tech interviews?"
Find some...
Q:
Reference Checks Are old school
MORE THAN JUST A FOOSBALL TABLE
CULTURE
DEVELOPERS ARE CREATIVE Artists don't work 9 to 5
DEVELOPERS AS PRODUCT DRIVERS esp. when the company IS the product
lunch together
LUNCH
TOGETHER
REMOTE TALENT NO, NOT “OFFSHORING”
"Stop whining and start hiring
remote workers"
"Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely"
① Don't want to relocate ② Need to relocate: "My spouse is going
to med school" ③ Productivity: "most of our remote
developers work longer hours than our in-office devs."
④ Collaborative workspaces ⑤ Forces better communication ⑥ Not widely adopted (yet)
WHY?
REMOTE TALE The Technology Is There …
EQUITY FOR WHEN $$ IS
JUST NOT ENOUGH
EQUITY Very heavily debated topic.
① Fairness > %
② Vesting
③ Slices
④ Shotgun clause
⑤ Equity ! = Currency
⑥ Dilution / Valuation !%#&
CONCLUSION
① High Demand: YYZ losing talent to SFO
② Remote talent & distributed teams => Future!
③ Startups: seek generalist, application developers
④ Established companies: seek both generalists & specialists
⑤ Technical interviews are very important
⑥ Go where the talent is
⑦ Culture is important to attract and retain talent
⑧ Give vesting equity to your founding team
REFERENCES Further Reading
http://alittlebitofjake.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/buy-a-10x-software-developer-its-the-best-investment-you-can-make/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/20/startup-genome-ranks-the-worlds-top-startup-ecosystems-silicon-
valley-tel-aviv-l-a-lead-the-way/
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely/
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.html
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3064-stop-whining-and-start-hiring-remote-workers
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.html http://justinjackson.ca/why-distributed-teams-are-more-effective/
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-software-startup-how-do-i-allocate-ownership-fairly/23326#23326
REFERENCES Further Reading
http://foundrs.com/ http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%20Calculator.htm http://berkonomics.com/?p=1214 http://billpayne.com/2011/02/14/startup-valuations-the-dave-berkus-method.html http://medstars.com/images/docs/modified_berkus_method.pdf http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/14/understanding-how-dilution-affects-you-at-a-startup/
QUESTIONS?
FIN.
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