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In April 2014, Josh and I started Underdog.io as a side project to help pay the bills and buy some time to finish another product that we had been building. The premise behind Underdog.io was simple. If the …

Maya Prohovnik writes about the “learn to code” movement and provides advice to those considering a bootcamp program.

Underdog.io is a curated marketplace that matches high-caliber candidates with top-tier startups. This post describes how we transitioned our batching and candidate delivery process from a manual one to an automated one that allowed our company to scale.

One year ago today, Underdog.io was born. Back then, it was supposed to be nothing more than a side project. In fact, we were so unsure of Underdog.io that we originally planned to run it anonymously. Chris accidentally …

We ask all featured Underdog.io candidates to distill who they are and the type of job/company that they’re looking for in a 160-character summary. We’ve found that it’s a great way for candidates to show their personality while giving founders and hiring managers a more personal look at their interests.

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.