real4real

How do you find engineers in a hyper-comeptitive market?

Posted by real4real on Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:56PM
from the self-post dept.

my company's looking for an engineer for what seems to me like a dream job. Very early startup but has paying customers, solid funding, and already profitable. Great pay. Working with smart people. Really interesting problems from both a UI and computational perspective. But we can't find engineers to even listen to our offer. Anyone have creative ideas to find engineers?

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Re:Ask HN: What is a Software Engineer? on Thursday March 28, 2013 @12:19AM (#5453328)

it's just a title. titles don't mean anything. I've known VPs who worked for directors and vice versa. if you work for someone and they give you the title software engineer, then i guess you're an engineer. If you work for yourself, you can give yourself whatever title you want. I like Czar of North America. Just get stuff done and/or make money. don't worry about titles or labels.

Re:Ask HN: What Are The Best Open Source Codebases to Study to Improve? on Thursday March 28, 2013 @12:14AM (#5453316)

i also came out of a non-CS background. I don't recommend just looking at open source code. That would be like watching someone skiing to try to become a better skier. The only way to get better at coding is by writing code. You want to get into a situation with a more experienced programmer who can mentor you when you get stuck and review your code.