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I wasted a good portion of my teen years playing Dungeons and Dragons. (Kids, this was back when the world was young, and the game was new.) They were fun times spent whiling away the hour by killing skeletons and dodging dragons. Our little group never got into major campaigns–we preferred “one-shot” campaigns. This way, […]

Writing job ads is a common part of a manager’s job. Many times, I’ve had to sit down and write the copy that would be posted across the web to attract new talent to my team. Yes, sometimes it was as easy as posting “I need a developer” on Craigslist.com, and I was immediately flooded […]

I talk to a lot of people about how to find, interview, hire, and retain software developers. When I am talking about hiring software developers, the conversation invariably comes around to the topic of coding tests.

Developers often ask our advice on pricing themselves. It makes sense: we facilitate hundreds of hires each year and are responsible for negotiating each of those engagements, so yes, we talk about rates and salaries a lot. As a job seeker, there’s tension between underpricing yourself and disqualifying yourself with a sky-high rate. It’s impossible […]

It’s no secret that we here at Gun.io are fans of fandom and the way films can be a transformative works of art. We’ve watched The Mandalorian, Cowboy Bebop, and The Book of Boba Fett on company time, and share our favorite new shows and movies in Slack to dissect over text. Our hunt for […]

So, you need to start interviewing developers. Do you know how? Can you tell if a developer actually knows what they are talking about or just blowing smoke?  It is tough for non-technical people to evaluate technical expertise. Most fall back into patterns like “they sounded like they knew what they were talking about” and […]

It’s no secret that this hiring market is brutal. While we’re all working double time to recruit and hire great talent no matter our job title, the ones bearing the brunt of it are recruiters—particularly technical recruiters. Luckily, we can help shorten your hiring cycle to get your team growing fast. 

So you need to hire a software developer. Do you know how? Can you tell if a developer actually knows what they are talking about or just blowing smoke? Do you know what questions to ask a developer to find the difference? It is tough for non-technical people to evaluate technical expertise. Most fall back […]

So, you need to hire a software developer. Do you know how? Can you tell if a developer actually knows what they’re talking about, or if they’re just blowing smoke?  It’s tough for non-technical people to evaluate technical expertise. Most fall back into patterns of   narratives like “They sounded like they knew what they […]

Are you on the losing end of the hiring see-saw, or are you retaining your talented developers by pushing them to get to the next level?

Long before I could express ideas in computer code, I could express myself in written form. I didn’t know the term back then, but this was the beginning of my personal “talent stack”.

Managers in the modern workforce must now be equipped to contend with an infamous challenge known as the Great Resignation. Dealing with the talent shortage is no new occurrence–preceding generations of managers just hadn’t come up with a hip name for them until now. In fact, there has been a shortage of technical talent–specifically, developers–for […]