Hiring Candidates

If I’ve learned one thing over the years working as a developer myself and then managing a technology team of my own, it’s that technology professionals expect a combination of incentives to stay motivated. I...

“No. We’ve seen this candidate before. We need to see someone new.” These were the frustrating retorts that recruiter Michael Nelms heard a bit too often from his clients. Rarely did he receive responses like...

Your social recruiting efforts just got faster. And easier. Introducing Dice’s new Open Web Chrome Extension. Now you can access a candidate’s entire social footprint, wherever you go on the web. Researching a candidate on GitHub...

Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Software Engineer? This is the most common job title, and it can mean all sorts of things.  Generally, these  include: writing code, fixing bugs, writing tests for code, and...

Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Data Scientist? Data Scientist is not a new role; however, with computing resources becoming more affordable and technology advancing more rapidly, more and more organizations are employing people in these...

Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Software Engineer in Test? These roles are similar to QA engineers in that they tend to have a lot of the same responsibilities around test cases, planning, and quality...

Return to Technical Hiring Guide What Is a Technical Lead? The many different flavors of this role can be called Development Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Software Engineer Lead, Software Manager, or ...

Return to Technical Hiring Guide QA engineers are almost always on the software-building side of the organization, and are responsible for making sure that software meets the quality bar. Their responsibilities include testing software...

Return to Technical Hiring Guide System Administrator System administrators, often referred to as sysadmins, are in the operational side software. They help set up servers and hardware for the software to run on,...

Return to Technical Hiring Guide DevOps Engineer This is a newer role and represents the bridge between the worlds of building software and the operations required to support it. As more organizations move into...