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Interviewing programmers 101 - Part 2

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In my first article I covered the actual interview process. In this next part I now take a step back and look at how you find the most talented programmers when you have hundreds of CV’s and you don’t […]

21May2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Interviewing programmers 101 - Part 1

I thought I would write up my thoughts on recruitment, and specifically recruitment of programmers. The reason for this is that I am going through a recruitment cycle at the moment. My new company is a startup and it has made me re-evaluate how I recruit.
In the past
Many years ago when I worked for Argonaut […]

15May2007 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued

Internet World Show 2007 - My fun day

As I stated in the previous post I went into London today to visit the Internet World show at Earls Court. This was the last day of the show which I thought would be less busy and perhaps would have more freebies left to claim for my good readers.
How it started

As I walked out onto […]

3May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Do you need triple A* programmers?

I have done a lot of recruitment in my time and at least 80% of it has been recruiting programmers. The reason? finding and (more importantly) identifying good programmers is hard (really hard). I have recently been reading one of Joel Spolsky books and his interview techniques fit with most of my views on the […]

19Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued
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