Joe Stump on How to Hire Top Engineering Talent

In Chapter 14 of 17 in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Internet entrepreneur and SimpleGeo CTO Joe Stump shares how to be competitive recruiting and motivating high end engineering or programming talent. Stump notes Google and Facebook pay roughly market rate while Netflix pays a bit more due to location constraints. He notes the hiring and motivation process is less about getting a passionate buy-in to a company vision and more about getting buy in around solving a particular difficult problem. Stump is the co-founder and CTO at SimpleGeo (www.simplegeo.com), a San Francisco-based mobile location infrastructure services company. Previously Stump was Lead Architect at Digg. He programs in PHP, Python, Django and enjoys scaling websites. He earned a BBA in Computer Information Systems from Eastern Michigan University.