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The Bootcamper Dilemma - Spotting Inflated Resumes in Tech Recruiting

August 25, 2023
Author: Aaron Decker

Every job you post related to software development is now flooded with applications from bootcamp devs with no actual experience. How do you deal with this? How do you spot these resumes? Here are a couple ways you can spot them. Yes, this article is written for new recruiters on your team! Indicator 1: The Illusion of Open Source Projects While it's commendable for anyone to contribute to open…
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Vector Databases And Semantic Search Explained for Recruiters

May 23, 2023
Author: Aaron Decker

Previously, I wrote a post talking about how a lot of companies are looking to add "AI" to their products but what they are really probably looking for is backend developers to integrate GPT like features. But let's talk a little bit more about LLMs (Large Language Models) and GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) - yes we are talking about ChatGPT. What is GPT, really? GPT, which stands for…
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Tech Job Apocalypse - AI's Chaotic Consequences

April 08, 2023
Author: Aaron Decker

One thing is for sure, everyone expected advances in machine learning to automate away jobs but nobody was expecting artists, writers, and programmers would be the first to be impacted! AI's impact on the job market from a software engineer's perspective I now routinely ask ChatGPT questions about work & code. It's better than any other tool at coming up with tricky regular expressions. It can…
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Layoffs In The Tech Industry - February 2023

February 10, 2023
Author: Aaron Decker

At this point almost every large tech company has taken steps to implement layoffs (or at least hiring freezes). Here is a short summary - from Layoffs.fyi. Microsoft: multiple rounds, at least 10k jobs Disney: 7k jobs Salesforce: 8k headcount, 10% of workforce Meta: 11k headcount in Nov 2022. Shopify: 1k headcount, 10% of global workforce Amazon: 18k total announced Jan 2023 Google: 12k total…
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January 2022 Developer Survey On Recruiting

January 22, 2022
Author: Aaron Decker

Before we start Here are the previous years results: 2020 results 2019 results The results Similar to last year, developers are likely to reply if you include enough information to conclude that the role is a match for them. Also similar to last year, except I threw in a question about remote work. Of course here we can see that mis-targeting is still high on the list. Don't ask Dev-Ops…
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Types of Companies Explained For Recruiters

August 08, 2021
Author: Aaron Decker

One aspect of engineering roles that in my opinion is underappreciated by newer recruiters is how different one type of company is from another. For example - a "Senior Engineer" role at a startup will be a lot more heads down programming than a "Senior Engineer" role at a large fortune 500 company. And different things can be said for contracting, consulting, and agency work. The job of an…
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Will Developers Come Back to the Office?

June 30, 2021
Author: Aaron Decker

When I first started programming professionally it struck me as a job where you often sit by yourself at a computer for long stretches of time struggling through some problem or another. Maybe 20% of the time you had to talk to other people about what you were doing and ask for help. The further I got in my career the more this percentage of talking about problems and coordinating things increased…
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React Native Explained For Recruiters

June 24, 2021
Author: Aaron Decker

I have previously written about how there is a difference between Mobile Developers and Web Developers. Yes, they are both programmers and they are building user interfaces but the devices they program against are different and the the languages and tools used are different. What is React? React is a technology created by engineers at Facebook to help build user interfaces using JavaScript for the…
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Python, Data Science and Machine Learning For Recruiters

May 05, 2021
Author: Aaron Decker

Python has grown in popularity to a surprising degree over the last few years. If you didn't know, it's actually a pretty old language - older than Ruby, Java and JavaScript. In my opinion it's recent surging popularity in the last decade has a lot to do with new applications in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Check out this google trends chart of Python vs Ruby vs…
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