This document provides an overview of why and how we do recruitment at UBC Launch Pad.

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Technical Roles

When recruiting for technical (developer) roles,

Note: The categorization is by no means the best reflection of applicant’s skills and capabilities, however as we need to have some metric to group applications; we roughly we aim to categorize applicants into the following categories:

• Beginner: student is in 1st or 2nd year student OR course project OR simple project (hackathon)
• Intermediate: Completed 1 internship OR a non-course “advanced project”
  • An advanced project meets the following criteria:
    • long-term (for example, at least 1 month between the first to most recent commit)
    • is non-trivial and the product of tangible effort (up to judgement)
    • demonstrable use programming paradigms (even as simple as loops)
• Experienced: (2 internships OR outstanding project) AND interest in mentorship

To provide support to our less experienced members and ensure a productive environment for everyone, when recruiting we aim to have:

• around 40% of members be “beginners”.
• at least 20% of members (including leads) be “experienced”.

Each lead typically leads 1 team. We aim for a club size of 8 developers (excluding the lead) per team, to accommodate for members potentially leaving throughout the semester due to scheduling or personal reasons.

You can learn more about technical roles in the Developer

Design Roles