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How to Win the Competition for Technical Talent
#devhiring@Andela @Lever
Thursday December 8, 2016
Kiran DhillonContent Marketing ManagerLever@kirandhillon4
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Our featured speaker
Lisbi AbrahamChief Information Officer Andela@Andela
Andela extends engineering teams with world-class software developers. We recruit the most talented developers on the African continent, shape them into technical leaders, and place them as full-time distributed team members.
Our clients include Facebook, Microsoft, and other industry
leaders in the U.S., Europe, and Africa.
"You guys blew us away.”Project Manager, UBER
Zuckerberg’s Venture To Invest In Startup Andela
Zuckerberg’s Visit Is A Validation For Betting Big On
Nigeria’s Tech Industry
Zuckerberg (CZI) backs Andela, a startup more elite
than Harvard
Year founded: 2014Locations: New York | Lagos, Nigeria | Nairobi, KenyaBacked by: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, GV, Omidyar Network, Steve Case (AOL)
Sourcing
Interviewing
Closing
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Got engineers?
Engineers are the least likely candidates to be
applicants – just 38% of engineers apply
To recruit engineers, go proactive
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Sourcing is about taking control of the talent in
your pipeline
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The interview process
ScreenPsychometric
testsCoding evaluation
Onsite(behavioral +
Pair programming)
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Coding evaluation
Coding evaluation
Coding challenge
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Soft skills
- Willingness to ask questions- Stakeholder management- Expectations management- Attention to detail- Cultural awareness- Seeking feedback- Problem solving / critical thinking- Holistic / big-picture thinking- Active listening- Client / company vision alignment
Coding evaluation
Technical skills
- Specific language skills- Agile process- Test driven development- Debugging- Estimating- Security principles- Database design- System design- Performance optimization
Onsite interview: skills match
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Questions
Scenario based questions: Problem solving and ability to extrapolate risks and consequences of a solution: Talk about a commonplace scenario, like too much traffic, and ways to solve it. Most importantly what are the things that can go wrong with each solution.
Scenario based questions: Role specific. Eg. for client facing staff, what would you do if a client said the developers we had provided to them were not doing a good job.
Pair programming interview: Step someone through an existing codeset. Ask them to implement a new feature in the code. Then ask them why they chose that method, and what if they tried a different method.
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Pair programming Something
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Making the “sell”
Discover what motivates each candidate throughout the process. Come back to those motivators when the offer is out.
Ask “What are your reservations?” Address them. Ask again.
Let top candidates chat with as many team members, executives, and founders as they want to.
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Don’t shy away from metrics
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Find the bottlenecks!
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Lever Nurture
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Automate hundreds of sourcing touchpoints in custom workflows
Launch a nurture workflow right from the chrome extension
Lever interview kits
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Set custom interview panels Leave detailed interview instructions
Lever analytics
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Increase efficiencyWhat are our best sources of hire? Let’s double down there.
Keep your team on trackLet’s find out why interview volume has dropped. Are our screens too stringent? Is our top of funnel pipeline shrinking?
Get strategicAt our headcount, can we realistically hit this quarter’s goals?
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