The Hiring Book

Ask CTO's, technical leads, founders, and anyone in charge of building software what their biggest challenge is and the chances are they will say hiring developers. Everyone has a problem with hiring developers and everyone complains about a shortage of technical talent.

But from the point of view of a developer, there is a shortage of decent companies to work for. The average company doesn't know how to attract developers and doesn't know how to make a good place to work for them.

This book is for anyone that wants to grow a team of developers. Rather than give you tactics for finding a single developer and getting them to build a thing for you, this book is about the long-term outlook you will need to make hiring progressively easier as your team grows.

Content outline

Here's a non-final, very rough outline of the content of the book:

1. Intro

2. Three years of good work

3. What to do when they leave

4. Running a productive development team

5. On-boarding

6. You don’t need an interview

7. Structure your hiring process

8. Write your job spec

9. Finding good candidates