The Silicon Milkroundabout is a two day hiring bonanza taking place this weekend, May 11th and 12th. The Saturday is focussed on Product and the Sunday is all about Engineering. Historically the venue has always been in East London, and this year is no different: we’ll be at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. Good news for us, a short taxi ride from the Lokku offices from whence we’ll be hefting some iMacs and such for our pitch.
We currently have a Web Developer role open, so we will be attending on the Sunday only. We’ll be competing with and collaborating with 120 or so other top UK startups who are all looking for the best engineering talent they can find. As part of my tactics when choosing our Tier 2 pitch location I managed to get one next to a Tier 1 “big money" company, my hope being that a) they will bring people over to our side of the room, and b) they will be good fun to talk to. Looking forward to finding out who our neighbours will be.
This isn’t our first Silicon Milkroundabout. We actually attended the very first event way back in May of 2011. It was a hectic but extremely fun day, and that was only 30 companies in total. My mind is boggled by the idea of 120 startups!
We have a pretty good track record though: we did successfully hire at the last SMR we attended, and I’m happy to say that Savio is going to be joining me to see what things are like from the other side of the table on Sunday. He will be our secret weapon - as a previous job-seeking attendee of the Milkroundabout he’ll know just what to say to tempt people over to our pitch. And if that doesn’t work we’ll have bowls of candy or something :-)
Hope to see you there! Please do drop by our table and say hi, and if you’re interested in becoming a Web Developer for Nestoria get in touch!
