Bias against interview anxiety is harmful in more ways than one. Creating a comfortable space for interviewees and checking your judgement at the door pays dividends.

Hiring a good software developer can be a major undertaking. Figuring out who to hire, how to interview them, and what questions to ask takes time and effort. In this article we'll cover some evidence based hiring techniques that will help reduce the time and effort spent on hiring while at the same time improving the efficacy of the process.

Colt Steele is a software engineer and educator that's built development curriculum for companies like Udemy, Springboard, Galvanize, and Udacity. We caught up with Colt to discuss what he's learned about teaching coding to 600,000+ software engineers.

At Qualified, our team has always been 100% remote. That means we’ve hired our entire engineering team remotely and have always considered the remote experience when building our developer assessment platform. This post provides straightforward guidance on how you can take your old on-site hiring process and adapt it for the remote first world.

There is a plethora of data and research available that outlines exactly how companies can build a hiring process for software engineers that's truly predictive of their future, on-the-job performance. Yet, the tech industry at large has all but ignored these practices opting instead for antiquated hiring processes with low preditive validity.

This list of personal software engineering blogs represents the best of the best. Whether you’re stuck writing a particularly challenging bit of code or are simply looking for some inspiration from your peers, these blogs are worth having on your radar.

The idea of technology companies launching their own software engineering blogs is far from new, but the vast majority of companies who head down this path do so for ill-informed reasons.

It’s me again… your Director of Talent Acquisition. Our conversations lately have been a bit tense, so I wanted to reach out and extend the proverbial olive branch. I think we can both agree that we’re not overflowing with qualified candidates for our open development positions.

The philosophy, ideals, and behaviors that guide everything from our product strategy to our own processes for hiring software engineers.

A step-by-step playbook to successfully hire coding school graduates and set them up for success within your engineering team.

Andela is working to build technology ecosystems throughout Africa—a challenge that starts with processing over 130,000 applications from aspiring software engineers. When it comes to assessing the programming ability of a continent, Andela has turned to Qualfied's developer assessment platform.

Not all software engineers appreciate coding skills tests—and with good reason. But if wielded intelligently coding assessments actually represent an opportunity to build your employer brand, build credibility, and give candidates a flavor of the culture they'll encounter within your engineering team.

Progressing through the skills needed in software development can be grueling. Use this profoundly simple insight to level up your skills.

We ran the numbers, and the cost of landing a new developer will set a company back roughly $22,750 — dive into the numbers with us and figure out why.

For tech organizations, recruiting talented engineers is a time-consuming and often challenging process that can directly impact company goals and the bottom line.

Now is the best time ever to be a software developer. Check out this cheat sheet to help you identify the best of the best.

Hiring the right engineer for the job is critical to a company's success. So, how can we ensure that we are finding the perfect person for the position?

Inc. explores how companies are evolving their hiring process for greater effectiveness. In their article, CEO of Qualified, Nathan Doctor, articulates the importance of testing real-world ability.

Software development is hard. Check out these tips for maximizing productivity while also preventing burn-out.

Looking for these skills will help you select developers with real-world AngularJS experience.

The true, hidden cost of hiring - your engineers' time - reduces your company's ability to innovate and could be costing you $22,750 of enterprise value per hire.

Great developers have something better than a desire to work long hours.