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Intro

0:00

Topics

1:34

Hiring sucks

1:57

Hiring is a funnel

3:42

Sources

4:11

Personal Networks

4:39

Hiring Marketplaces

10:47

Job Boards

13:55

Meetups

16:54

When to use a recruiter

18:53

Recruiter Types

19:44

Startup Hiring Plan

20:57

Why should you believe me?

22:26

The process

24:23

Inconsistency / Noise

26:19

Inter-rater reliability

26:53

Why do interviews?

28:23

Decide what skills matter

29:42

Questions to answer

31:12

Use structured interviews

32:16

What's a structured interview?

33:57

3. Use good questions

38:15

Ignore credentials

39:55

Think about false negatives

41:27

Look at MAX skill

43:26

Think about candidate experience

44:06

Don't raise your pass rate

45:57

Recommendations

46:12

You don't have the scale to standardize

47:18

You have trouble sourcing

47:56

You're not sure what skills matter

48:54

You don't have technical expertise

49:55

Interview your co-workers

51:42

Conclusion

53:21

Tips

57:17

Full Offer Details

58:09

Google and Facebook

59:15
Building an Engineering Team by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar
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2018Sep 26
Former YC Partner and founder of TripleByte Harj Taggar, along with his cofounder Ammon Bartram discuss a topic startups often struggle with most: finding and hiring the key engineers who will build your product. You can find the lecture transcript and slides here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/44 Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/

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