Involve your Engineering team in the recruitment proces

1. Involve your Engineering team in the
recruitment process
Guillaume Maron
Co-Founder & Director of Engineering
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2. Recruitment process for developers
 Process
 Recruiter phone screening
 Hiring manager video call
 2 on-site coding interviews by developers
 On-site hiring manager interview
 Executive interview - VP
 Predictive Index
 Reference checks
 Hiring committee
 Tools
 ATS - greenhouse.io
 Real-time code sharing platform - codeshare.io
 Whiteboards
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3. Involve engineers at all stages
 Collaborative job setup
 Job offer – based on a template
 Coding interviews preparation
 Skillset definition
 Sourcing
 Referral
 Meetups
 Conferences
 Recruitment events
 Recruitment
 Interviews
 “Selling” lunches
 Closing – hiring committee
 Onboarding the newcomers
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145
(37%)
$17K
(70%)

4. Developers to sell the job to developers
 Am I going to work with talented
developers?
 How cool is the team?
 Can I picture myself working
there?
 What are the team’s expectations?
 Are managers and developers on
the same page?
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5. Value for the team
 Transparency about opened positions
 Evaluate technical skills
 What is the candidate bringing to the team?
 Cultural fit
 Empower the team by involving them in the recruitment
 More referals
 Keep focus on why it is nice to work in your company
 Decrease risks of bad surprises
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6. Involve developers in QA & Product recruitment
 Evaluate candidates:
 technical skills
 communication skills
 Cultural fit
 Improve job selling
 Give a better view on expectations
 Show candidates that they are joining a team
 Let candidate project themselves
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7. Drawbacks
 Recruitment tends to disrupt the development process
 Significant investment: 40 hours of technical interviews for 1
hire
 More interviews means longer recruitment process
 Mitigations
 Have a clear recruitment process
 Train all developers to perform technical interviews
 Communicate on the criticity of recruitment
 Use recruiters to facilitate interview process
 Make the priorities clear
 Congratulate the team on successful hires
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8. Thanks!
Q&A
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9. We’re changing the world… one password at a time
Dashlane wants to make identity and
payment simple and secure everywhere!
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Want to be a part of life in the Dashlane?
Visit dashlane.com/jobs for all the info!
Dashlane is a premier, award-winning password manager and
digital wallet, intrinsically designed to make identity and payments
simple and secure on every website and every device.
We’re a rapidly growing, tech startup using the world’s best security
and privacy architecture to simplify the lives of more than 3 billion
Internet users worldwide.
Since our first product launch in 2013, our brilliant team of engineers and developers tirelessly work on new coding challenges, build code using
the latest up-to-date frameworks for native development across desktop and mobile, use cutting-edge web service architecture, and are at the
forefront of building applications that help millions of people every day!
So far, all of our hard work has been paying off! Dashlane was recently recognized by Google as one of the “Best of 2015” apps! Google also
recognized our Android password manager as an Editors’ Choice winner on the Google Play Store, and selected Dashlane to demo its adoption
of Android M fingerprint technology at Google I/O!

10. We work with the latest technology!
See our code in action! Check out some of our
projects on Github!
Github.com/Dashlane
In addition, each member of the Dashlane team can take some time to
share his insights in Tech Conferences and become a thought leader
in the tech community.
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@ Droid Con
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Emmanuel Schalit
@ The Dublin
Web Summit
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@ Le Wagon
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Dashlane is dedicated to building high-quality user experiences on Mobile, Desktop, and on the web using the latest up-to-date
technologies and languages.

11. Ready to join #LifeInTheDashlane?
We’re filling our ranks from top to bottom with
some of the smartest and friendliest developers
and engineers in the industry! Come join us!
Visit Dashlane.com/jobs to learn more about
joining the Dashlane team!
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