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Data-Driven Recruiting: All You Need To Know

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

When you need to scale your business, you look at the recruiting teams to bring in the talent needed for success. Hiring at scale is not an easy feat, and doing it well without having an analytical and data-driven recruiting approach is even harder. Why is data important in tech recruiting? What is data-driven recruiting?

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A Detailed Guide on Conducting Effective System Design Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The term ‘system’ here refers to any set of interdependent modules that work together for a common purpose. The role of a system design engineer includes creating the architecture for different components of a given system, and defining how they interact with each other for a common goal. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Q.1.

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Seeing the post-COVID hiring frenzy descend into chaos has not been easy for me or others in the recruiting community. We have always aligned our assessment methodology to be aligned to how work gets done in real life, but we appreciate that an engineering manager would want to know how good a developer is sans AI assistance.

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A Detailed Overview: Cost-Per Hire in Recruitment

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

But if it’s the latter, you need to revisit your recruitment costs and optimize them. Cost-per-hire is a recruiting metric that measures costs associated with hiring employees. The cost-per-hire formula is the sum of internal and external recruiting costs divided by the total number of hires in a given time frame. Let’s read.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

I don’t mean an engineer just hammering on the keyboard shipping code at light speed. When I talk about it, I refer to a whole range of things, like helping your coworkers, introducing new frameworks, improving the process, and much more. This bubbles down to a junior engineering manager. So for a 2x engineer we pay 1.5x

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Becoming a CTO

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

I started as a developer and followed a traditional path of moving up to more senior levels on the development track and then moving to lead, engineering manager, director, VP, and now chief technology officer. I’ve worked at a hundred-thousand-person company, seed-stage startups, and many of the variants in-between.

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Hire a Build and Release Engineer

Mobilunity

A build and release engineer can be referred to as a build developer or release engineer. It is a software professional specializing in managing and enhancing the company’s software product development and releases. It is also possible to say that a server build engineer works within the DevOps.