How to find experienced web / mobile developers from Eastern Europe for $20-25 / hour and not end up with assholes

1. How to find experienced web / mobile
developers from eastern Europe for $20-25 /
per hour and not end up with assholes
Recruit the best developers

2. Goal
● Share my experience
● Give practice reusable examples
● Save you 100 hours

3. Context
● Hire developer on long term project

4. Agenda
How to find:
- Recruitment Funnel
- Passive search and active search
- Candidate channels
Not end up with assholes:
- Selection
- Ideal candidate for you

5. Who I am?
Andrey Azimov, Ukraine
Founder of GETDEV.CO - Agency that is helping
founders to find talented developers for remote
job
About 1000 candidates was interviewed
21 developer was hired and working in different
startups and companies around the world

6. Recruitment Funnel
Leads
Text
Test task
Video interview
Probation period

7. Search types

8. Active=Write!
● Send him to vacancy post
● Call to action
● If not: Question for reference!
Example: here

9. Passive: Post a vacancy
● Cool picture or animation
● Overview
● Project links.
● Skills
● Language
● BENEFITS!
● Call to action
Example: here

10. Use BOTH on
each channel

11. Stage 1: Leads
7 channels where you can
find candidates

12. Leads Channel: 1 - Ask your connections
Know Dev?
+
Question*

13. Leads Channel: 2 -
Prof:
● A lot of people will submit on your vacancy
● You can see ratings and feedbacks
Cons:
● 20% over pay
● Difficult to made test task for free
Example: here

14. Leads Channel: 3
https://www.producthunt.com/jobs
https://www.angel.co

15. Leads Channel: 4 -
● PHP Developers Slack Chat
● iOS Developers Slack Chat
● [Who you need] Slack Chat
http://slacklist.info

16. Leads Channel: 5 - djinni.co
Search and interviews - Free
20% from month salary if you will hire candidate

17. Leads Channel: 6 - Social Networks Groups
Find technical communities: Example PHP Developers, iOS Developers in

18. Leads Channel: 6 - Social Networks Groups
1. Find technical communities: Example PHP Developers, iOS Developers
2. Submit to and wait
3. Post the vacancy

19. Leads Channel: 7 - Forums
Some old school devs are still
use them.

20. 7 Leads Channels summary
1. Ask friends
2. UpWork
3. Slack Chats
4. ProductHunt and AngelList
5. Djinni
6. Social Networks Groups
7. Forums
No magic! Use all!

21. Stage 2: Texting
Quick test on wrong guys
Example: here

22. Stage 3: Test Task
● Very important to give test task 70% candidates fuckup on this steps
● Everyone has good LinkedIn, CV, UpWork profile
● Something small but from your daily tasks that he will do 1-2 hr

23. Stage 3: Test Task
● Agree test task is free
● Ask about time estimate before
● Give feedback
● If not: cool project source code
Example: here

24. Stage 3: Test Task - Find Expert
● Guy who can make test task and evaluate them
● Find via Friends reference or UpWork*
● He also will be on next stage: video interview

25. Stage 3: Test Task - If not expert :(

26. Video interview
● This stage only in the end ONLY with worthy candidates
● Save you tons of time ~ 100 HOURS
● Code review with expert.
● Language
● And personality

27. Ideal candidate portrait
Modest professional
● Takes responsibility
● Saying possible risks
● Solve task in time
● Report problem + solution

28. Ideal candidate portrait
Not arrogant!

29. Probation period
● Set Up clear goals on probation period.
● 1 Month real life project.
● What is exit criteria?

30. Summary
Little tests will select you best one guys.
Keep pensioned and do it all or hire
someone who can help you with this

31. GetDev.Co
Contact for any advice: