Get the whole company to engage in hiring, and care for your candidates.

  • $2k employee referral bonus may be an order of magnitude too small
  • consider internships
  • consider bootcamps like Code2040, Techtonica, Hack the Hood, or Year Up
  • make sure the whole company is aware of what we’re hiring for
  • filter out candidates soon, i.e. minimise time spent on non-hires
  • give exact questions with precise answers (not open-ended) to non-technical recruiters to perform initial screening
  • communicate, even if it’s “no updates”
  • “hiring is partly sales”
  • engineers: have an at-home (not real-time) coding test which should take ~3h. Review code together after. Could skip code for v. senior hires
    • or longer hours but pay for the candidate’s time?
  • team/1-1 meetings after coding test
    • could swap this order?
  • hire candidates with excellent communication skills. Don’t assess their “culture”