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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_iris6mo ago
My friend's best hire was a barista who taught herself to code online.
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ruby_jones6mo 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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vera_robinson364mo ago
Yeah I totally get what ruby_jones is saying about the Python meetup. It's like people who put in their OWN time to learn stuff after work are usually way more motivated than someone who just coasted through a four year degree. I saw this at my old job too, our network admin was a guy who fixed laptops at a repair shop and taught himself networking at home on his old Dell. The the_iris story about the barista reminds me of that same thing, it's a pattern where the dedication shows in the work itself.
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