How We Hired an Outstanding Junior Developer

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Company posts role in Norway requiring legal right to work and gets 77 applications. Two reviewers independently screen with veto rights, cut to about 20, then rank and combine using the Schultzy sorting method to pick six interviewees. Final hire comes from a telecommunications background, with ~7 years as editor/translator and 2–9 years of mixed software experience. Hire demonstrates rapid learning, perseverance, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the outcome proves the nontraditional pipeline yields an outstanding junior developer.

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