How to hire great engineers
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Claim: hiring improves when roles are specified, measured and staffed by a trained panel. Process uses a role specification template, staged screening (resume dedupe, phone screen, standardized online coding test, paired bug-fix exercise, culture interview), consistent scoring forms and 30/60/90 onboarding. A centralized hiring squad and agency sourcing target passive candidates. Goal to fill 25 hires in two months becomes 20 hires in two months; hires meet or exceed performance and candidates get feedback, so the system proves effective.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17Who am I
- 0:36Aberdeen
- 1:14Melbourne
- 3:39Why hire
- 6:03Normans background
- 11:01How to give this talk
- 11:58Job specs
- 19:53Job description
- 29:05Job ads
- 30:57Job ad structure
- 32:09Research
- 39:48Selection
- 44:18Hiring process
- 50:13Creating and training your hiring squad
- 52:33Collecting data
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