CodinGame has built an astounding community of 350,000 developers. François will share the best tips on hiring tech talent and making sure they stay on top.

1. Source & retain developers
TheFamily meetup
March 2016

2. « 199 out of 200
of applicants for every
programming job don’t have
any programming skills
and can’t write code at all »
Jeff Atwood
Co-founder Stack Overflow

3. « We have this sort of classic
understanding of what a
developer is. But it is changing
rapidly »
Kakul Srivastava
VP Product, GitHub

4. ENGAGING DEVELOPERS IS A PAIN
$16.6Bn 20% 70/week
Cost of tech recruiting for US-
based companies, growing
by 20% p.a.
IDC estimates, Sep. 2014
Average turnover rate of
developers in US-based
companies
IDC estimates, Sep. 2014
Number of events for
developers organized by
Google every week in the world
Google Developers website

5. Worth the (me…

6. WHO WE ARE
Programmer hub
where top coders meet and interact
by solving the world’s most complex contests
Entirely free. Open to top coders.
25 programming languages
Classic: C, C++, C#, Java, etc.
New: Swift, Go, Rust, etc.
7 types of games
Solo puzzles, optimization, bot
programming, live coding, etc.
Dozens of programming fields
Graph theory, artificial intelligence,
deep learning, encoding, etc.

7. OUR EXPERIENCE
dateIndia
24K
USA
55K
Canada
8K
Brazil
9K
Japan
9K
Russia
13K
Romania
12K
France
45K
UK
12K
+350,000 users
170 countries

8. WHAT DEVELOPERS WANT
Constantly learn
new things
Contribute to
meaningful
projects
Get inspired
by the best
Have fun

9. … AND WHAT THEY DON’T WANT…
Not to do list
1. Harassing them
2. Not involving them
4. Not challenging them
3. Not understanding them
5. Not freeing them
etc.

10. KNOW
THE MARKET
1

11. USE CASE
Learning coding
makes you attractive

12. BE WHERE
DEVELOPERS ARE
2

13. Yes, a violonist…
March 2015

14. LEVERAGE
YOUR ASSETS
3

15. USE CASE
Capitalize on
vision and challenges

16. GET HELP
4

17. USE CASE
Evaluate coding skills
via an assessment platform

18. MAKE THEM
GROW
5

19. USE CASE
Incentive your developers
to constantly train

20. HOW WE DO IT

21. HOW WE DO IT
ASSESSS
Assessment platform
White Board (Google)
Human fit (whole team)
HIRE
Engage around a technical challenge
Personal networks
Schools
RETAIN
Free hours for training
Personal projects
Group projects

22. Thank you!
François Fillette
francois@codingame.com
+33(0)637381444