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This document discusses using a project-based approach to finding and attracting data engineers. It recommends that companies encourage their teams to contribute to open source projects, which can engage teams and attract qualified applicants. It also suggests using project-based challenges for candidates and having teams build projects unrelated to the core product. Projects allow candidates to demonstrate their skills and knowledge, and companies benefit from experience with new technologies. This approach led to a 40% increase in qualified applicants for Insight Data Engineering's Fellows program.
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- 1. Finding Data Engineers A Project-Based Approach David Drummond Insight Data Engineering C1 Speaker Series - AppNexus July 20th, 2015
- 2. About Me Using theoretical physics to design massively parallel fault tolerant systems
- 3. Insight Fellows Program Over 250 Fellows at dozens of top tech companies in NY and CA
- 4. Finding Data Engineers It’s hard to find the right people who know the right tools
- 5. Building a data team is an opportunity to learn Projects allow your team and applicants to learn
- 6. Attracting Data Engineers Open Source projects engage your team and the right audience of applicants
- 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
- 11. Project-Based Challenges Projects allow candidates to not only show their knowledge, but how quickly they can learn
- 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
- 15. Project-Based Challenges Our applicants have a week to complete a project with real-time Twitter data
- 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