Hiring your first developer with no technical person in the room? 5 interview questions that filter out 80% — and what a strong answer sounds like.
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Leadership posts share experiences managing teams, mentoring junior developers, leading technical decisions, and navigating the shift from writing code to enabling others to write great code.
Hiring your first developer with no technical person in the room? 5 interview questions that filter out 80% — and what a strong answer sounds like.
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A developer builds what you ask for. An IT partner asks what you actually need. The difference is the difference between wasted budget and a result that works.
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As COO, I worked closely with Iurii, who led our IT department with rare clarity and ownership.
Andrii 🇫🇮
COO, Suomen Pehmeä Ikkuna Oy (Pikkuna)
Service: e commerce
We had a small in-house dev team and no one senior enough to make the hard architectural calls. Hiring a full-time CTO didn't make sense at our stage, so we brought Iurii in two days a week.
Joachim Weber 🇩🇪
CEO
Service: fractional cto
We'd just raised and needed to double the engineering team fast, but nobody internally had hired at that scale or owned the architecture decisions that came with it.
Kasper Holm 🇩🇰
CEO
Service: fractional cto
I'm a non-technical founder and I'd been making technology decisions by guessing, which was getting expensive.
Matteo Conti 🇮🇹
Founder
Service: fractional cto
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