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As someone who's trying to recruit developers for our startup, Hirelite looks interesting. Is there any way to target only people within a specific location (like San Francisco)? Or only people who are willing to relocate?

I'd definitely pay to interview 20 "screened developers"* if they were all in the SF Bay Area already. Much less interested if they could be anywhere.

*What does "screened" really mean? Are you only showing me people that match the skillsets I mentioned?

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Thanks! We're still very early stage, so we haven't expanded to other locations but definitely plan to. So far, we've focused on back-end and generalist software jobs around NYC. For our first web-based event, we required developers to be in the NYC area, but for this event we're accepting developers who would be willing to relocate to NYC.

We've had a lot of interest in remote work. What do you think of that? We're targeting full time jobs, but would be open to getting in to contract gigs (which seem to be mostly remote jobs).

>> What does "screened" really mean? Are you only showing me people that match the skillsets I mentioned?

We screen developers with a brief programming test in the language of their choosing and look over their profile and github account. Currently, we don't offer to match specific skill sets. We look for companies that are comfortable letting developers catch up on whatever their tech stack is.

Everyone and their brother is willing to do remote or contract work. What's tough is finding good local people who are willing to join a team.

It seems kind of useless to let me talk to any developer if you're not doing ANY skillset matching. If I'm looking for PHP or JavaScript developers, if someone really only knows C++ or .NET - I'm much less likely to want to talk to them.

Aren't the stats that something like 50% of developers applying for a position don't actually know how to code? If someone can eliminate those people so you don't have to waste your time on them, it might be worth it.

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