7. Attracting Data Engineers
Open Source projects engage your team
and the right audience of applicants
• Contribute to a well-known open source project
8. Attracting Data Engineers
Open Source projects engage your team
and the right audience of applicants
• Contribute to a well-known open source project
• Encourage teams to open source useful libraries
that solve general problems in the community
9. Attracting Data Engineers
Open Source projects engage your team
and the right audience of applicants
• Contribute to a well-known open source project
• Encourage teams to open source useful libraries
that solve general problems in the community
• Make time for teams to build and speak about
projects unrelated to your core product
12. Project-Based Challenges
Projects allow candidates to not only
show their knowledge, but how quickly
they can learn
• Choose projects that are interesting and related
to the context of the position
13. Project-Based Challenges
Projects allow candidates to not only
show their knowledge, but how quickly
they can learn
• Choose projects that are interesting and related
to the context of the position
• Be technology and language agnostic, or be
very lenient to language specific details
14. Project-Based Challenges
Projects allow candidates to not only
show their knowledge, but how quickly
they can learn
• Choose projects that are interesting and related
to the context of the position
• Be technology and language agnostic, or be
very lenient to language specific details
• Allow applicants to submit open source projects
in lieu of technical challenges
16. Project-Based Challenges
Our applicants have a week to complete a
project with real-time Twitter data
• All applicants learn more about data engineering
and the accepted Fellows are better prepared
17. Project-Based Challenges
Our applicants have a week to complete a
project with real-time Twitter data
• All applicants learn more about data engineering
and the accepted Fellows are better prepared
• Our team gets experience with new open source
projects and languages
18. Project-Based Challenges
Our applicants have a week to complete a
project with real-time Twitter data
• All applicants learn more about data engineering
and the accepted Fellows are better prepared
• Our team gets experience with new open source
projects and languages
• These changes have led to a 40% increase in our
yield of qualified applicants
19. Project-Based Learning
Our Fellows learn the latest open source
technologies by building 3 week projects
Inaugural NYC Session begins September