What I’ve Learned After Holding 1000 Interviews
How to hire in startups and big companies
Hiring is one of the most important things you do as a manager or entrepreneur. It will make or break your startup, team or project.
In the past 10 years, I’ve been hiring and building teams for startups and big companies, and I’ve got some valuable tricks up my sleeve in keeping a good process and hiring great people. Hopefully, sharing them with you might help you do the same.
How did I reach the 1K mark? I was the engineering manager tasked with building engineering teams at a startup and then, after its acquisition, building a sizeable European engineering office. For every hire I made, I had to interview 6–7 candidates on average, and I hired over 150+ people with various expertise, functions, skill sets, and seniority.
I tried to split this article into two parts:
Part I is focused on the interview process, what to look for in candidates and things to keep in mind before, during and after the interview and
Part II is focused on pitfalls, my biggest challenge and most likely yours and the million-dollar question: “How do I know if a hire will work out or not?”
Let’s take them one by one.
