Comments for Philipp Moehring

Comment on Attention to detail by P. Moehring

P. Moehring — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:28:00 +0000

See. Clearly way to go for me

Comment on Attention to detail by Marcel Weiss

Marcel Weiss — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:18:00 +0000

Attention to detail: Schiller is the senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, not its CEO.

Comment on Where to hire engineers in London? by Siepert77

Siepert77 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:10:00 +0000

I have been involved in hiring engineers for the last 2-3 years. The following builds on this experience.
Okay, hiring hack share alert: I see numerous startups advertising engineering positions who pitch their company to engineers in the same way as they would to investors or founder peers.
This leads to the following: Strong focus on the company’s market position, growth perspective etc etc. Strong emphasis on the current technology stack as a required skill set. Hype lingo (“stealth ninja CTO magician needed”).

Far more interesting for high calibre engineers is the following: Describe your company starting with its engineering challenges. Focus on high level challenges that allow developers to think.
Try and understand what specific skills your hire needs and where an agnostic developer with a broad range of experience will be able to onboard himself quickly (eg you probably don’t need a coffeescript expert, as someone with considerable javascript experience will be able to work productively with coffeescript in a matter of days).

Describe your development process. If you don’t have one, get one installed. There are exceptional engineers who cowboy code. As long as you never plan to grow a team larger than that one engineer: No problem. Oh, you do? Get a process. Describe it.

Cut the lingo. All the engineers I know hate it. If you want to stand out, use terms that engineers use to describe themselves. “Maker” is an example. “IT whizz” is not.

Oh, and we’re hiring: http://mindmatters.co.uk

Comment on Where to hire engineers in London? by London Tech Exec

London Tech Exec — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:49:00 +0000

Careers 2.0 looks like a good one, seeing as you can directly target people active in the right communities. Call up sales for Stack Exchange and they’ll help you out…hint hint.

Comment on Effective intros by Toby Downton

Toby Downton — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:15:00 +0000

Nice one Philipp, I’ll have to go and check out Fred’s post now…:-)

Comment on Can’t wait for the really cool photo apps on tablets by Jan

Jan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:10:00 +0000

Will do, Sir!

Comment on Effective intros by P. Moehring

P. Moehring — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:54:00 +0000

I only make direct intros to people that I know, because if it’s a cold intro, the original person might just as well get in touch directly.

A lot of the intros I make are to people that expect me to connect them – like developer relations people of larger firms to engineers at some of our startups, VCs to founders (and vice versa), and such. In that case, a direct intro works really well.

A big part of my daily work is to make sure our companies are in touch with the right people to help them out. This is how I do it.

If it’s a more delicate relationship, I certainly use the “double opt in” method, as I don’t want to overload other peoples inboxes if it dosen’t make sense. Fred describes the negative outcomes quite well in his post

Comment on Effective intros by Toby Downton

Toby Downton — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:45:00 +0000

Great post Philipp, I get everything you are saying and will refer back to this post over the year as I become accustomed to working like this. One question for you – how well should you know the introducer? For example, I’m connected to you on LinkedIn, but have never met you or spoken to you. I feel like I need to properly introduce myself to you first, before asking you to make an intro right? If there’s any way I can help you, or make an intro for you, give me a shout!

Rgds @tobydownton:disqus

Comment on iPhone ohne Home Button jailbreaken by bomandi

bomandi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:09:00 +0000

in Safari jailbreakme.com aufrufen
Cydia installieren
Activator installieren und Gesten einrichten
(z.B. schütteln simuliert Home-Button)

Comment on I loved this city by Toby Downton

Toby Downton — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:04:00 +0000

Hi Philipp

It’s been a very sad period for the majority of Londoners over the last week, I haven’t known anything like it in 14 years. I was sorry to read about your experience on the tube, really not good.

I wanted to tell you that your post most certainly is not “whining” and I genuinely hope that the “old feeling” does eventually return.