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That panel at SXSW last month completely flipped my view on hiring
I was at a small tech talk about building teams in Austin. The speaker, a founder from a local startup, said they hired their best engineer from a coding bootcamp, not a big school. I always looked for fancy degrees. We hired a guy from a bootcamp here in town two weeks ago. He fixed a major bug in our payment system in his first three days. My old way of thinking was just wrong. Anyone else in Austin tech have luck finding talent outside the usual places?
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the_iris24d ago
My friend's best hire was a barista who taught herself to code online.
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ruby_jones24d ago
We found our last two hires through the local Python meetup at Spider House. Honestly, some of the most driven people are just building their own projects on nights and weekends.
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