One of the biggest obstacles that enterprises face in deploying Salesforce is hiring skilled developers. It's a seller's market, and you need to widen your search to cover both existing employees and external talent. Join us as we provide the practical techniques one company used to assemble a rockstar development team.
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Building a Rockstar Salesforce Development Team
1. Building a Rockstar Salesforce
Development Team
Kevin Shuk, Palantir, Salesforce Architect
@surfous
Derek Lansing, Palantir, Salesforce Developer
@dereklansing
3. What obstacles are you facing?
Tweet your biggest hiring obstacle with the hashtag
#DF13Rockstar
4. Agenda
• Where to look for talent
• Who to look for
• How to interview
• Additional Resources
• Q&A
5. Where to look for talent
• Job description on website alone doesn’t work
• Social Networks – OK
• Community Engagement – Better
• Referrals – Best
• Bonus: People who already work for you
6. Who to look for
• Developer
• At scale, software design matters
• Existing developers who enjoy building
business applications
• Java/C#/other OOP languages are
beneficial
• The same tools that make a good
developer make a good SFDC developer
7. Who to look for
• Administrator
• Power user turned admin
• Problem solving mentality
• Enjoys helping people
• “Renaissance Man”
8. Interviewing
• Treat salesforce developers like any other dev in your
organization
• Utilize DE/Training Orgs to create real world scenarios
• Code in the interview
• Use problems you’ve encountered as interview questions (but be
realistic in your expectations)
9. Other resources
• Top #DF13Rockstar hits
• Example interviews will be posted in the chatter group
for this session