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Aug 27, 2017 hiring recruiting certification

You're not a compiler!

At conferences, it’s common to get gifts at booths. In general, you need to pass some some sort of challenge. Some of those challenges involve answering a code puzzle, like guessing the output of running some code snippet.

Nicolas Fränkel
Feb 28, 2016 interview recruiting

The sad state of developer interviews

Recruiting is a complex process, and recruiting developers even more so. In this post, I will focus solely on the interviewing part (and leave the rant about recruiters who are paid 1 year of the candidate’s salary to just match buzzwords for another time). I recently stumbled upon an article about interview questions, again, telling you about 'right' answers for such and such questions. There are plenty of such articles on the World Wide Web, full-fledged sites dedicated to this topic an

Nicolas Fränkel
Nov 9, 2014 recruiting

Dear recruiters

I had been pleasantly surprised last time when, after connecting on LinkedIn, a recruiter sent me a personalized mail. It was the first time it happened, and I found this gesture showed that the recruiter cared about the relationship. Besides, the job I currently have was found on LinkedIn - or more correctly, a recruiter found me for this job. This is to say that I have nothing against neither recruiters nor LinkedIn. Unfortunately, more often than not, I usually receive such messages: Hel

Nicolas Fränkel
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