Recruiting AMA! 

I was (and am) a tech recruiter for 4 years. I’ve scaled a company from 7-35 in a year and hired every founding functional role in a seed stage startup. 

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🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make beautiful, functional, and ethically made candles at humankind.place

Question to ask an engineer that gives the best signal?

There's no silver bullet question for having a good hire, but in general I ask everyone: 
- What is the biggest mistake you've ever made in? = copout answer means they're high ego, honest answer is low ego.
- Teach me the most difficult concept you know in 5 min

They should meet the team and get along with everyone :)

Everyone else is answering with technical questions, but I believe that it’s much more difficult to screen for a good culture fit than a technical fit 🤷🏻

When you hire a ft founding engineer they’re all smart, opinionated, and have yoe - you have to know they’ll stick with you for the long run!

draw a bicycle and explain to me how it works

- How do you gain technical consensus w/ other engineers?

- What’s the most technically complex project you’ve worked on?
Followed with: What did you learn and what would you do differently?