How to Hire a Dev? Certainly one of the most popular question for entrepreneur. Fabien Charbit co-founder and CTO of Sush.io (http://sush.io) give some tips and talk about his experience.

1. Hiring a Dev
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2. http://sush.io
@fabiencharbit
fabien@sush.io

3. Content
• What does Dev want?
• How to hire a Dev or a Tech Associate?
• How to write a good Job description?

4. Tech is important
• Allen!
• Stats as programmer for
Honey Well
• Gates!
• At 13, first computer
program in Basic on GE
System (tic-tac-toe)

5. Tech is important
• Daniel Ek!
• First company at 14
• CTO Jajja Communication &
CTO uTorrent
• KHT Royal Institute od
Technologies

6. Tech is important
• Drew Houston!
• Degree in computer science
(MIT)
• Start first release of Dropbox
himself when he was
student

7. What does Dev want?

8. • Learn
• Work with competent people
• In a fun environment
• Try new technologies
• A good salary
• Their opinion can be heard

9. Most important values
Team
Salary
Technologies
Company Culture
Product

10. How to Hire?

11. • Know what you’re hiring for
• Know what you’re going to ask
• Take notes
• Have an opinion & back it up

12. • What’s your culture?
• Recruit for your culture!

13. • Rails/Ruby
• Cocoa
• Scrum and Project Management
Are just nice haves…..

14. • Passion
• Customer / Product Focus
• Work Ethic
Are must haves!
• Team Spirit

15. Interviewing

16. Tips/Tricks
• Don’t walk through resume
• Check references
• Take a lot of notes
• Interview many candidates
• Many interviewers (key employees, associate)
• Assign area of focus to interviewers
• Debrief with Everyone

17. Smart Questions…
• Behavioral questions!
• Delivered a key project under deadline?
• Negative Tweet?
• Your team partner is not efficient enough. What do you do?
• Dig into details!
• What did YOU do? (best realization)
• How did you know it worked?
• What could you have done better?

18. Some ideas…
• Beginning!
• What did you prepare for this interview?
• Did you have a look at our product? What’s your opinion?
• Classics…!
• 3 Adjectives people use to describe you?
• Why did you choose this
• What could you have done better?
• Give them for questions…

19. Where do you find Stars?
• Ask your Friends
• Past employees/ers
• Networking/Parties
• Word of Mouth

20. Ideas
• https://www.startupdigest.com/digests/paris
• http://humantalks.com/
• http://startupweekend.org/
• https://www.numaparis.com/
• Epita, Epitech, EEMI
• Un cours Leeaarn Assembly pour les devs?

21. Example

22. Never say…
http://blog.humancoders.com/comment-rediger-une-
offre-demploi-comme-un-mauvais-recruteur-60/

23. Write as a Dev
• no blabla
• Be realistic
• Avoid no-end of company description
• Be specific
• Be Human!
• Avoid useless technologies descriptions
• Ask to a Dev to check your Job description!

24. An example
http://jobs.humancoders.com/ruby/jobs/380-une-future-
locomotive-sur-rails