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Hiring A Suitable Developer to Build Your Business Website

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Introduction

A web developer is surely one of the crucial and vital for any website development services. After all, he is the person who creates the front face of your business and enables interaction with customers virtually. Hence, it is really important to hire the right talent at the beginning itself as otherwise you will be risking your business and wasting money and time on hunting the replacement. In this article, we will try to give you a few tips to hire a suitable website developer.

Looking for Right DNA Than Experience

While hiring the personal DNA of the person is most important than any other considerations. Anyone's distinctive instinct to fit into your work and company is more important than the personnel's experience. Whatever culture your company possesses and demands is what you look in the developer whom you wish to recruit. Like for instance, a brilliant business website developer who has worked for a very large financial institution may not perform well at a startup. This is because the startups require more skills like versatility, adaptability, risk-taking and a self-starter personality but these might not be of much weight at a large company. So it is necessary to define your DNA requirements for the company and at least 80 percent of criteria should be met by the interviewee.

Begin with Smaller Projects

Always try out the new developer by assigning him smaller projects. This will help you assess his caliber and define his role in your organization. By this, you will also come to know about the candidate's creativity, timeliness in delivering the project, etc. Based on that you may evaluate the candidature of that person for higher-level developing projects.

Look for Aptitude Not Particular Skill Set

In the ever-evolving technology world, skills become obsolete every year hence it is always better to hire personnel who has a zeal to grasp and get an update with the new technologies and skills which are hitting the market. Therefore, there is no point in you hiring a developer with a specific skill set and not wanting to change and upgrade with the new upgrades in the market. To assess during the interview whether the candidate will adapt to the change or he/she has a zeal to learn on the job, you may fire appended questions.

  • What are the new programming languages which you have learned recently?
  • From where do you learn new tips and tricks?
  • Tell us something about your favorite technology conclaves etc.

Skip Non-Essential Questions On Programming

There are a few questions which you should avoid while interviewing business website developers like:

  • In which year did PHP release?
  • Primary creator of Java programming.
  • Origin of Python programming language etc.

Though such kinds of trivia questions seem useful but is a terrible way to assess the smartness of someone and singles out the one who can memorize things. Such kind of people fails when they are selected and on-board for real work. You need to focus on open-ended questions and evaluate them. Don't look for the questions which can be easily searched online and memorized for the interview day. Just try to analyze the communication power of the candidate and the way he or she answers your questions. Let us see few examples of open-ended questions below.

  • How do you intend to manage conflicts in a web application when different people are editing the same data?
  • What kind of design pattern you have used so far, and in what environment?
  • Differentiate between component-based and object-oriented design etc.

Hiring and Firing

You should always spend more time while hiring business website developers for your website development services and at the same time should not hesitate to fire them without wasting time if you feel the candidate is ineffective and unproductive for the kind of work you are expecting from him or her. An unproductive or ineffective developer can be a disaster to your company and ultimately to the entire team of yours.

Conclusion

In the above article, we have shared factors which one should keep in mind while hiring a developer for their company. Many leading website development services organization strictly adheres to the key factors stated above which in turn help them engage a competent developer.

 

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