Notes from Heyzap CEO Immad Akhund's talk on hiring as a marketing process

Some good insights here

But I think open source experience was vastly overlooked, hiring developers with open source experience mitigates a lot of the risk involved in hiring in a startup, you get a good gauge of their skillset, their interests, you know they are self motivated and dont need their hand held through everything

I also disagree with a 2 day unpaid exercise, 2 days is a lot of time to spend on a company who isnt even sure about me to need to do the exercise in the first place, I think this is a follow on point from above