Want a great software development team? Look no further. How to Recruit and Hire Great Software
Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team is a field guide and instruction manual for
finding and hiring excellent engineers that fit your team drive your success and provide you
with a competitive advantage. Focusing on proven methods the book guides you through creating
and tailoring a hiring process specific to your needs. You'll learn to establish implement
evaluate and fine-tune a successful hiring process from beginning to end. Some studies show
that really good programmers can be as much as 5 or even 10 times more productive than the
rest. How do you find these rock star developers? Patrick McCuller an experienced engineering
and hiring manager has made answering that question part of his life's work and the result is
this book. It covers sourcing talent preparing for interviews developing questions and
exercises that reveal talent (or the lack thereof) handling common and uncommon situations
and onboarding your new hires. How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers will make your
hiring much more effective providing a long-term edge for your projects. It will: Teach you
everything you need to know to find and evaluate great software developers. Explain why and how
you should consider candidates as customers which makes offers easy to negotiate and close.
Give you the methods to create and engineer an optimized process for your business from job
description to onboarding and the hundreds of details in between. Provide analytical tools and
metrics to help you improve the quality of your hires. This book will prove invaluable to new
managers. But McCuller's deep thinking on the subject will also help veteran managers who
understand the essential importance of finding just the right person to move projects forward.
Put into practice the hiringprocess this book prescribes will not just improve the success
rate of your projects-it'll make your work life easier and lot more fun.
