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[...] spots open at your company, and you want the best applicants, then you need to begin early. At Fog Creek our recruiting efforts begin just a few short weeks after our summer program ends in August and [...]

[...] When Brett moved from New York City to Honolulu, where he continues to work for Fog Creek, we didn’t anticipate a very serious problem: What to do on a remote employee’s [...]

[...] company.  Read about how I use Trello for all our onboarding needs. Complete with images of Fog Creek’s real onboarding board, like this…    AND A public template I created [...]

[...] During orientation I reminded the class that this was our first attempt at the The Fog Creek Fellowship. Mentors and fellows alike have been providing us with constant feedback allowing us [...]

[...] as a profession is needing to participate in code reviews. Code reviews can be an excellent opportunity for you to hone your art by communicating through the [...]

[...] apply? The person doing the resume screen can add on as many +’s as they want during the resume review. We’re not looking for just one type of intern and we make sure our resume review [...]

[...] ;s what we learned: Adapt Your Process Our recruiting pipeline used to look like this: Resume Review → Recruiter Phone Interview → Coding Phone Interview 1 → Coding Phone [...]

[...] . We were able to filter out 152 applications right off the bat during this very first step. Resume Review:  At Fog Creek, we think it’s important to have the resumes reviewed by the people [...]

[...] pipeline used to look like this: Resume Review → Recruiter Phone Interview → Coding Phone Interview 1 → Coding Phone Interview 2 → In Person Interview It’s very difficult to [...]

[...] Today marks day one of the Fog Creek Fellowship. Thanks to Stack Exchange and Trello a total of 16 fellows are to be mentored in this first class - Pretty awesome. [...]

[...] Trello board to organize and plan short teaching classes. Every Friday fellows from both Stack Exchange and Fog Creek are invited to attend these lessons and so far the feedback has been nothing [...]

[...] a class (or two or three) for New York City’s Tech Talent Pipeline. Trello, alongside Stack Exchange, Tumblr, Kickstarter, and Control Group, is committing to teach 50 - 75 NYC student [...]

[...] candidates meet with an additional four developers and join us for lunch. We held 29 in-person interviews for our 2014 recruiting season. And yes, we prepare all our in-person travel itineraries [...]

[...] ;ve spent the last five months doing résumé reviews, phone interviews, and in-person interviews, for that open Internship / Developer / QA / Support Engineer role. You finally found a [...]

[...] developer who asks a different coding question. We did an additional 53 Code Screen 2 phone interviews for our 2014 recruiting season. In Person Interview: Starting at 10:00am and typically [...]

[...] You’ve spent the last five months doing résumé reviews, phone interviews, and in-person interviews, for that open Internship / Developer / QA / Support Engineer role. [...]

[...] housing arrangements and planning our outings and parties.  We are always accepting internship resumes but are actively recruiting for our summer internship program September through February. & [...]

[...] resume screening process. That’s it. We look at seven different areas when reviewing internship resumes.  The resume screening step is primarily about reducing the overwhelming number of [...]

[...] Today marks day one of the Fog Creek Fellowship. Thanks to Stack Exchange and Trello a total of 16 fellows are to be mentored in this [...]

[...] During orientation I reminded the class that this was our first attempt at the The Fog Creek Fellowship. Mentors and fellows alike have been providing us with constant feedback allowing us to [...]