I love bug squash interviews.

To make sense of all the contradictory info on Google & Facebook hiring freezes, we surveyed hundreds of engineers who are interviewing there right now.

I believe that most advice on choosing a startup to work for is wrong. Early employees at wildly successful startups suggest you assume the value of your equity is zero (https://twitter.com/rabois/status/679722946919677952) and instead optimize for how much you can learn (https://triplebyte.com/blog/interview-with-gmail-creator-and-y-combinator-partner-paul-buchheit). In this post I'll argue that evaluating how likely a startup is to succeed should actually be the most important factor in your decision to join one. As a former partner at Y Combinator, I know a lot about how investors do thi...

Lessons learned from scaling Stripe's engineering team.

Hiring is broken on so many different levels, and it starts right there, at the job offer description. It then continues all the way down to the actual interview process. I'd like to unfold here some prescriptions about how I think startups should hire.

Hiring the best employees and building a strong culture are imperatives for any company. However, culture fit screens in the interview process have been shown to introduce significant bias. In this post, I dig into what companies actually mean by culture fit, and try to find a way to resolve this conflict. I hope this post will be useful for hiring manager designing an interview process, or engineers getting ready for interviews.

And other things you’re doing wrong, according to Patty McCord.

Onboarding new and junior developers to the team is hard. You want them to become good, but that requires instruction, and instruction takes time. How do we ...

And because of "experience inflation" by employers, the experience you need for entry-level jobs is increasing at 2.8% every year.

Three Questions to Ask Yourself Before Making a Senior Hire

Business has never been better at Basecamp. Despite all the competition, all the noise, and all the changes since we launched 14 years ago…