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Benefits of Hiring Remote Software Developers
Struggling to hire the right software developers and engineers for your team? Finding and hiring remote developers could be the solution you’re looking for. 11.05.2021
Increasing Candidates Taking Your Coding Challenges
Things you should consider when creating code challenges to encourage developers to take them and increase overall engagement with your technical assessments. 05.03.2021
How to Review a Take Home Code Challenge Pt.3
Need to know how to mark a code challenge? Here are the essential aspects you should consider when peer-reviewing a candidate’s code challenge solution. 24.11.2020
How to Review a Peer Review Code Challenge
Need to know how to mark a code challenge? Here are the crucial aspects you should consider when peer-reviewing a candidate’s code challenge solution. 04.03.2020
How to Review a Human Reviewed Code Challenge Pt.2
Need to know how to mark a code challenge? Here are the aspects you should consider when peer-reviewing a candidate’s code challenge solution. 17.10.2019
How to Manage & Work with Remote Teams
A guide to the operational side of hiring remote software engineers, how to manage your team effectively, and tips for your day-to-day workflow. 27.09.2019
How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Software Developer?
A breakdown in costs such as creating job descriptions and interviews associated with recruiting a software engineer. 27.09.2019
Why Code Challenges Should Be Peer Reviewed
Software engineers prefer peer-reviewed code challenges where they can provide feedback. Find out why we do it at Geektastic to find better candidates. 26.09.2019
Questions Used in Coding Challenge Interviews
If you’re a developer looking to prepare for your next interview, take a look at 5 questions we find get asked a lot in coding challenge interviews. 26.09.2019
Improving Engagement with Coding Challenges
How many of your technical assessments for candidates get returned? Less than 50%? Increase candidate engagement with our 5 experience-backed recommendations. 01.06.2018
Why We Chose TransferWise & Payoneer to Pay Our Remote Team
We pay our reviewers for reviewing code challenge submissions using TransferWise and Payoneer. Find out why we chose them over the alternatives here. 10.03.2017
How to Create a Code Challenge for Developers
Need to create an effective coding challenge for hiring the right developers and specialists for your team? Andy Davis shows you the ropes on Geektastic. 16.02.2017
What Makes a Good Coding Challenge?
Experienced software engineers give their views on what makes a good software code challenge and why creating the perfect code challenge is so difficult. 27.07.2016
Onboarding New Software Developer Staff
Five onboarding tasks that will ensure you engage your new engineering recruits in a way that gets them settled in and comfortable in their new role. 30.03.2016
How to Manage Technical Debt as a Startup
Why technical debt is like a pay day loan rather than a mortgage, especially for tech startups who often require finance to get the ball rolling. 19.02.2016
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