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Learning New Tech Buzzwords For Recruiters

April 04, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

Anybody working in tech encounters new buzzwords and new technology topics frequently. Kafka, Apache, Svelte, Kaniko, you might see a new technology once a day when you are getting started as a tech recruiter. How do you go about understanding them? There are a couple of ways I would recommend approaching this. From Looking At How Software Is Developed It's helpful to think of technology terms…
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How Will Covid-19 Affect The Job Market in 2020

March 23, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

We are currently going from the tightest job market in decades at 3.5% unemployment reported in February of 2020 up to as high as possibly 30% unemployment according to the president of the St Louis Federal Reserve yesterday. That would be worse than what we saw during the great depression. But if you close x% of businesses across the country to slow a pandemic, that's what happens I suppose…
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What's The Difference Between Junior And Senior Engineers?

March 04, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

Lately I've heard a lot of developers joking about the term "Senior Engineer". On a recent episode of JavaScript Jabber Charles Max Wood said that he was first called a "Senior Engineer" after about a year and a half of professional work because his consulting company wanted to bill him at a higher rate! So with that kind of title inflation going on it probably doesn't mean anything other than…
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5 Simple Java Screening Questions For Recruiters

March 01, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

Java is maybe the most common backend language used in software engineering jobs. Amazon, Google, Netflix, Apple, and Twitter are all major tech companies that extensively use Java. In this post I'll go over a couple of basic technical "weed out" questions you can ask Java developers. The problem with most Java programming questions Java is a language that strictly enforces and requires the…
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Software Engineering Vs Software Development Explained For Recruiters

February 27, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

What I do for a living is program computers. Mostly I write code to make web applications for SaaS style software products or business applications. I'm a programmer. I write code for a living, its fairly simple to explain. But why are there so many job titles - especially the two big ones "Software Engineer" and "Software Developer"? Job titles - Software Engineer Vs Software Engineer For the…
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What Is A Good Response Rate?

February 12, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

Response rates... Engineering candidates are notoriously good at ignoring emails. I did one survey where many recruiters reported they were seeing between 5% and 20% response rates. By the way, I only asked tech recruiters (my whole thesis behind this site is that tech recruiting is uniquely hard). For recruiters in general, the numbers generally seem to be a little bit higher. According to a 201…
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Serverless Systems Explained For Recruiters

February 08, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

Last week I wrote a post talking about what a good portfolio project should look like for a new grad going for a programming job and I shared a project I had built for fun. This project was built using the serverless framework on AWS using AWS Lambda functions and AWS API Gateway. Anyway, I realized I should do a deeper dive into just what exactly a "serverless" system is, and how it is…
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What Should A Bootcamp Grad Portfolio Project Look Like?

February 03, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

The hiring market is really tough for new grads coming out of programming bootcamp programs. Generally speaking, employers can't see any relevant work history and canned coding exercises don't necessarily convey that somebody coming out a bootcamp can get things done in a real-world environment. I think employers should be willing to spend time training candidates like this, but we all know…
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This Year LinkedIn Should Add A "Remote Only" Checkbox

January 29, 2020
Author: Aaron Decker

I posted last week going over the January 2020 developer survey I did about why developers do and do not respond to recruiters. I'm still going through all of the text responses and trying to write up insights from these, and there is a ton of good stuff in here, but one thing that really jumped out is that developers are trying to tell recruiters "remote only please" and have no way to do it…
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