How to Win the Competition for Technical Talent

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Thursday December 8, 2016

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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.

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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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