{"id":6900,"date":"2017-02-21T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usersnap.com\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2025-06-30T04:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:01:42","slug":"hiring-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usersnap.com\/blog\/hiring-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring developers is hard. Here\u2019s what we learned in the last 3 years."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No matter to whom in tech I talk to. Most people and tech companies seem to struggle with hiring developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And since I have the feeling that hiring is a topic that doesn\u2019t get too much talk and attention (maybe because of people struggling with it), I think it\u2019s our obligation to share the biggest lessons we\u2019ve learned at Usersnap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hiring must be a top priority<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In most tech companies, especially those fast growing ones, hiring is a top priority.
People are one the core success factors for every tech company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or as Sam Altman from YC states<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mediocre teams do not build great companies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Define the responsibility of hiring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When looking at most startups and small companies, we see that hiring is a big topic among CEOs and\/or co-founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most cases, small companies do not have their own Human Resource department or a HR person. The responsibility of hiring people is mostly assigned to the CEO or is shared between the co-founders.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Moritz Plassnig, CEO at Codeship, wrote this great piece on hiring<\/a> and why hiring is the single most important skill as a founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hiring is not magic, it\u2019s not luck, it\u2019s a skill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Hire the best full stack developers you can get.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In general, there are quite a few discussions on whether to focus on hiring specialists (e.g. front-end, back-end developers) or generalists (full-stack developers). Depending on your team size, your answer probably differs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us, as a team of 5 – 10 developers, one of our biggest learnings was the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go general. And hire the best full stack developers you can get.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Or as Raquel Velez<\/em> from npm<\/em> put it in her talk at ScriptConf<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“No one in our team is an expert in anything.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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“No one in our team is an expert in anything.” @rockbot<\/a> at #scriptconf<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rklnD4fV6U<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Thomas Peham (@tompeham) January 27, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n