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The CodeSprint 2 Post-Mortem and Announcing More CodeSprints

From Friday, January 6th to Sunday, January 8th, 5000 programmers from around the world participated in the second edition of CodeSprint, a programming contest designed to discover talent and find programmers jobs at 86 companies. This post is a complete … Continue reading

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Negotiating a Job Offer with a Company

This is a guest post by @StevieBuckley, who posts as Peroni on HN. Steve is one of the few recruiters that has earned the trust of the Hacker News community. You probably want to check out his blog: voltsteve.blogspot.com. Now that CodeSprint 2 is … Continue reading

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The Design of a Rejected CodeSprint Landing Page

In late November, we at InterviewStreet looked at the number of projects that needed a re-design, realized that the volume of work justified hiring a full-time designer, and reached out to find one. We eventually chose three different designers to … Continue reading

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Introducing the HackerBoard: A Christmas Story

As we’ve mentioned previously, the two big development foci for CodeSprint 2 are Real World Problems and the Hackerboard. Last week, we introduced beta.interviewstreet.com with sample Real World Problems. This week, we’re introducing the Hackerboard, but instead of just explaining it to … Continue reading

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Who’s Participating in CodeSprint 2? Edition T-2 Weeks

This is the third of a set of weekly posts highlighting companies participating in CodeSprint 2. For more information, see Introducing Company Profiles. Pathable Anywhere / Remote Pathable builds industry leading social software for conferences, events and associations. Citus Data … Continue reading

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