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Hiring Developers Remotely: 10 Best Practices

Remote hiring is the new normal. In tech, and across the work world. Indeed, the strong majority of recruiters (70%) say that their tech hiring process is completely remote-friendly ( State of Tech Hiring in 2023 ). However, remote hiring isn’t without its challenges—both for recruiters and candidates. Recruiters say that evaluating so-called “soft skills” or emotional intelligence is the most challenging aspect of remote hiring. It’s considered even more difficult in 2023 (47%) than in 2022 (37%). Developers agree, stating that conveying their personality and communication skills is the trickiest part of a remote hiring process.

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MySQL SHOW TABLES: A Detailed Guide

The MySQL SHOW tables command is very appropriately named since it allows you to list tables on a MySQL database. By the end of the post, you’ll have learned: We’ll also cover how listing tables in MySQL compare with other RDBMSs (relational database management systems.) Let’s get started. Requirements There are only two prerequisites if you want to follow along with the examples I’ll give. First, I expect some basic MySQL and SQL knowledge. Also, you should have access to a MySQL local installation.

Interviewing

3 Interview Tips for Software Engineer Hiring Managers

Interviewing is hard. If it were up to most of us, we’d wave a magic wand that makes the perfect candidate appear in front of us, ready to code. But the realities of searching for a perfect candidate – let alone one that is even good enough – are much more complex. Those complexities multiply for new hiring managers who are thrown into their first interviews with nothing more than a pile of resumes to go by. Do you really want to know the secret to having a great interview process?

Coding Challenges

Code Challenge: Vue Reusable Input Component

Vue is a popular JavaScript library for building frontend applications and user interfaces. It builds on HTML, CSS and JavaScript and employs a declarative model for building components. You can try out Vue on the Vue CoderPad sandbox to have a feel of the library. For this tiny interview, you have two tasks to perform on this Vue application: Please see the instructions written directly in the pad to proceed: 💡 Remember to share your solution with the hashtag #CoderpadTinyInterviews on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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New Back-End Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Spring, Gin, & Django

Developers work in frameworks—so why not interview in them? Now you can with CoderPad’s newly-released back-end multi-file frameworks. 🎉 These back-end frameworks come on the heels of our front-end frameworks release in 2022. Now, CoderPad customers have everything they need to conduct more realistic fullstack, front-end, and back-end interviews. Go Beyond the Algo Over the years, interviewers and candidates alike have asked us to keep making technical interviews more realistic:

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React-tooltip: A How-To Guide

A tooltip is an interface element often appearing on an icon, button, text, or image, like a small popup when you hover your mouse over the trigger element. In some cases, it’s even triggered on a click action. It’s also commonly known as a hint tip or an information tip. Tooltips are a great way to convey additional information for a user’s action. You can also use them to provide a quick how-to for specific user interaction. Since tooltips have a number of use cases, at some point or another, you’re going to need one in your React application. But how do you make a tooltip? Can you create a completely reusable tooltip component in React? Are there any good third-party tooltip packages that you can use?

Hiring Developers

Top 5 Things Developers Look for in a Job Offer

Finding and retaining top talent has always been challenging. Tech talents are elusive at best and a fable at worst. They have a lot of power, considering the shortage of skilled developers. Companies can no longer throw money around, hoping to land the best candidates. If you want to secure top tech talent, then you need to pay more attention to developers’ wants and needs. So, what makes developers happy and fulfilled? What do they look for in job offers? What would make them go for and stick with an employer?

Hiring Developers

Generative AI and the Future of Technical Interviews: Addressing Concerns of Increased Cheating

The current popularity of generative AI (Gen AI) like ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models (LLMs) has certainly raised no shortage of questions for all of us. These questions seem mostly to be grounded in fear – anxiety that candidates will use these technologies to deceive recruiters about their skills and lead to low-performing new hires within your organization. Due to this, many of the questions we get asked at CoderPad have to do with how to keep ChatGPT from messing up the recruiting process.

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How To Handle State Management in Vue Using Pinia

State management is often necessary when building applications, but it can be challenging to implement, especially with large-scale applications. Your application’s size and features often dictate how large or complex your state management will be. Although keeping track of states in an application is not easy, it can be with the right tools for the job. This post aims to provide a high-level overview of one of the many ways in which state management can be handled in a Vue application using Pinia .

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