Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/1e8hLqw. Pete Soderling presents tactics an engineer can use to successfully attract the best developers, explaining how to effectively tell the story of your product & tech to attract the best and brightest. Filmed at qconnewyork.com. Pete Soderling is the founder of g33ktalk, an international community of startup software engineers. He is a self-taught engineer who has developed online platforms & applications since the early days of the internet. For the past 5 years, Pete has worked as a engineering ambassador helping companies such as Amazon, Tumblr, IHeartRadio, TaskRabbit, NBC Universal.

1. Hiring Hacks for
Engineers

2. InfoQ.com: News & Community Site
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3. Presented at QCon New York
www.qconnewyork.com
Purpose of QCon
- to empower software development by facilitating the spread of
knowledge and innovation
Strategy
- practitioner-driven conference designed for YOU: influencers of
change and innovation in your teams
- speakers and topics driving the evolution and innovation
- connecting and catalyzing the influencers and innovators
Highlights
- attended by more than 12,000 delegates since 2007
- held in 9 cities worldwide

4. Who am I?

5. Why should you
care?

6. Engineers as hot girls?

7. It’s a marketing problem!

9. Maximize referrals!

11. Push screening to the edge!

13. Carefully craft your story!

15. Stop writing boring job specs!
http://vimeo.com/13214706

17. Have an interview strategy

19. Build engineering brand

21. Advertise an OS culture

25. Double down on university
recruiting

27. Release an OS project

29. Stay in touch w/ passive
candidates

30. Thank you!
pete@g33ktalk.com
@petesoder

31. Watch the video with slide synchronization on
InfoQ.com!
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/team-
hiring-techniques