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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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Whiteboard Interviews: Why They’re Bad For Technical Interviewing

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Whiteboard interviews have traditionally been a go-to method for evaluating technical candidates. Heres a detailed look at why whiteboard interviews are falling short, supported by alternative methods that deliver better results for technical hiring. These are far more relevant in a real-world tech role.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging. Additionally, 84% of leaders believed their organizations had strong teamwork compared to 60% of team members.

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

TechCrunch

And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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The reason India does not have enough awesome developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

A never-ending debate is that about the quality of Indian software developers. It is said that most developers around the world begin coding at a ridiculously young age. Hence, we have always heard time and again that Indian software developers are ok-to-mediocre coders, are not technically competent, and most times, clueless.

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Top 10 cities to hire developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

According to StackOverflow , the demand for software developers still outpaces the supply. Research reveals that in the US alone, tech talent shortage is predicted to cost the country USD 435.7 Hence, several firms across the globe have started to look beyond their local talent pool and hire software developers online or offshore.

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

TechCrunch

Developers can be a tough crowd. Coming up with relevant content that developers find interesting takes specific know-how, and this is where Draft.dev comes in. One of the survey respondents noted that developers are underrated as a target audience: It may be niche, but it is a large one. What inspired you to create Draft.dev?