{"id":5873,"date":"2012-10-08T09:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2012-10-08T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T07:32:02","slug":"rejoignez-une-startup-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/10\/rejoignez-une-startup-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoignez Une Startup – Feedback from Recruiting Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weekends ago was held the 1st edition of Rejoignez Une Startup<\/a> (“Join a Startup”), a startup recruiting event which aimed to attract top-level engineering talent to interest them in working for startups. More than 40 startups – including Capitaine Train<\/strong> (just raised $1.4M), VoitureLib<\/strong> (just raised $2M<\/a>\u00a0– here’s an interview with the founder on the future of car rentals<\/a>), BlaBlaCar<\/strong> (speaking at Dublin Web Summit<\/a>), Withings<\/strong> (has three devices in the top 20 connected devices of the Apple Store<\/a>), and Allmyapps.\u00a0<\/strong>In total, the startups were offering more than 140 jobs & had an attendee list of over 500 developers.
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\nThe event was held on a barge in the Seine, featured an open bar, and was generally packed. Startups like Work4Labs<\/strong>, who recently raised $11M for their Facebook recruitment platform, had a giant sign listing the languages they were looking for, while startup MyBlee<\/strong> had two distracting women preparing crepes for job candidates. I met mobile developers (iOS and Android), back- & front-end web developers, dev ops guys, designers & more.\u00a0At the end of the day, though, it’s all about whether or not there was good<\/em> talent, so I sent out messages to all the participating startups to see what their impressions were, and what they had been hoping to get out of the event.<\/p>\n

Mobile and Web and Dev Ops Oh My!<\/h1>\n

The variety of developers looked for were vast: iOS & Android, php & python, .Net & \u00a0django,\u00a0C++ & Web Designers. Startups were looking for anything from 1 to 4 full-time developer\/designer posts to fill, usually with differing profiles for each post. That being said, of the 50-100 candidates that responding startups met, they only considered following up with half a dozen of them, at most. A few startups have already employed a candidate or two, and some feel confident that they will hire someone soon.
\nDespite the small number of potential hires, however, all of the startups were\u00a0unanimous\u00a0about one thing: they would certainly pay to attend the event again. The fact is – hiring is hard – and at the very least, these startups got to get their name in front of 500 developers, regardless of whether they hire them or not.<\/p>\n

Can’t wait until May ’13! Why not January?<\/h1>\n

Rejoignez Une Startup<\/a> has said that they plan to host the next edition around May 2013, lining up the event around the start and end of the school year. Personally, I think there’d be an interest to host another edition sooner, around January 2013. What do you all think? Would you attend a January edition? Would your startup pay to get in front of this group? Comment Below!
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