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This is the latest in our “Inside the Stack" series featuring Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear from Daniel Schwartz, Senior Director of Engineering at Harry’s.

Breaking into a new industry is hard enough. Breaking into a new industry and learning to code is even harder. But if you’re willing to put in the time to network, build your own apps, and contribute to the developer community, you’ll be able to break into tech.

At a time when recent college graduates are looking at roughly 8.5 percent unemployment and 16.8 percent underemployment, applying to a startup job might be your best bet.

A little over two months ago, we opened underdog.io to candidates. In that time, we’ve seen A LOT of resumes. Here are some things, both good and bad, that we’re noticing.

Job boards are a mess. They can be expensive, and their ROI is a total unknown. Still, hiring is too important not to know of every tool available. We thought we’d share an internal list of technical job boards …

We built Underdog.io with one idea in mind: to remove agency recruiters from the startup hiring equation. We’ve got nothing against traditional recruiting, but for many startups, that business model is out of whack.