tl;dr - Past Experience does not equal success.
I wanted to share this since I have mentees, even ones in computer science who at the sophomore level, struggle to gain entry level positions at startups. I'm not sure why, but a tech startup invests hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer success and community building, but rarely considers hiring junior developers since of course "the ship is sinking and we need 15 year experience hole pluggers". Her talk focuses on the Scala world, but there's obviously some overlap with startups in general. The main point: We should question the idea that building a fully experienced team leads to success. Granted, your first hire shouldn't be a bootcamp grad, but your 5 probably should. I'm also happy this talk brings up the idea of "team building over hiring". Some teams have the luxury of hiring the best of the best, but a startup getting off the ground likely has few resources to attract top talent, so they need a strategy that goes beyond looking for that $200K a year 10x unicorn that will take them 3 years to hire. Team building is all about building a foundation to prop up your best developers to let them focus on what they're good at, while also linking junior devs development to your company success. What are your thoughts? What are your strategies? Any links to how others build teams?
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April 04, 2017 at 12:07AM
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