Good engineers are tough to come by: That’s a fact of life for many Silicon Valley startups, as a talent crunch has made it much more difficult and expensive to find good job candidates. It’s even more difficult if you don’t have the cash or name recognition to compete with the likes of Facebook or Google, not to mention some of the larger, venture-backed startups in the area.
But one startup has discovered an interesting way of finding potential new employees in an extremely cost-effective manner. Quixey, which created a smart search engine for discovering apps, has put up a coding puzzle online that offers a small cash prize for engineers who can fix a bug in a famous algorithm. But winners could also get the chance at winning a job with the Palo Alto, Calif.–based startup.
via GigaOM
January 19, 2012
