I have always thought something like this would be very interesting, I hope this catches on. I love the Hacker Dojo and wish I was in the Bay often enough to be a member.
If this is a success, do you have plans for the same event in NYC? I would love to come, but I think if it's in CA, then most companies would be in CA also..
We are definitely thinking about that. Already had interest from Microsoft to do one in NYC actually, which means we should have interest from other companies quickly as well.
This is awesome. My only concern is that I'd end up interviewing with the same companies in the same format anyway. If that is the case, I'd just be making it easier for the hiring side but not gaining myself any advantage.
I suppose people who don't interview well (like me) would benefit from some facetime.
Looks awesome! Though by my calculations, the counter will get to 0 days 0 hrs 0 min 0 sec just before midnight EDT on July 16, which is a full 14 hours before the event (but the jquery countdown they're using is probably using the browser's regional time).
Yeah... leave it up to stupid late-night mistakes. Can you believe I programmed this with no javascript experience? (note, I cheated, themeforrest did some of the work and I just REALLY cleaned it up, organized, etc)
We're planning on holding these more often. It may be Hacker Dojo, it may be a spinoff. I'm thinking September though for the next one, depending on how this goes.
When I was there last time, all of them were hiring managers and not recruiters. I ended up with 6 companies trying to recruit me, 3 of them were from startups I had never heard of. It was kind of cool seeing companies fight over you, since usually it's the other way around.
Why not? I think it's a great idea, and if technical recruiters "get it" enough so they come to this event, I would actually want to work with them. I bet those won't be the type of recruiters who ask "Well, I see that you have 10 years of JavaScript and PHP on your resume, but do you have HTML?"
What we're trying to do is have one person with the technical chops to figure out if candidates are good and one person with the power to move the candidate's file along in the hiring process. Can you think of an appropriate noun which represents the second group of people? I don't know what the proper parent class of that field is titled.
We are encouraging companies to bring their engineers and recruiters, so that you can talk to someone who knows what you're saying and talk to someone who can actually continue the hiring process.
Once again, if you decide to use embedded fonts on your website, please always give it a look on Windows first. Font rendering of embedded fonts on Windows can be really terrible, as it is the case of this website.
Sorry, It looked pretty good on my windows machine - though totally broken on IE.
I'm not a coder or designer, used Themeforrest and a lot of sweat to get the site working. What are your suggestions for fixing the fonts? (dumbed down for a mech. engineer)
