Engineering: Hiring Engineering Team

An engineering manager shares how hiring can be complicated behind the scenes. He says: "I'm leading a team that was on auto-pilot mode for some time. I recently made a decision to hire a great candidate that the team was not sure about. I found that the team's objections were

If you just found yourself here, you’ve stumbled onto a multi-part series on the technical interviewing process. Part 1 covered the phone screen and

In 30 years, I’ve done a lot of interviewing from both sides of the table. Because of my chosen profession, my interviewing has been for technical

It’s incredibly important to interview well as you’re building your technical team. Further, interviewing well is hard to do and, like anything, you

The standard job application of cover letter plus resume is a phenomenally weak way to introduce a candidate. They give you only the faintest clues as to the quality of an applicant. Sometimes, tho…

From a recruiting perspective, the best engineering manager I’ve worked with established her reputation with two hires. It went like this: ME: “We need to build an iOS team, and while we have talented engineers, we don’t have time to train the current team on iOS, it’ll be faster to hire.” HER: “G

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Neil Roseman, former VP for Amazon and Zynga, has interviewed hundreds of technical candidates. Here's what he learned.

Ask any software CEO these days what their biggest problem is, and they’ll usually complain about how hard it is to find good programmers. “There’s just nobody out there,” t…

Pebble Watch founder and Y Combinator partner Eric Migicovsky on shares advice on qualities to look for when hiring for your startupEric is a Partner at YC....