Hiring in a world of unicorns when you're just a zebra
summary
Hiring in a market dominated by well-funded "unicorns": the talk examines whether that trend is a bubble or industry shift but focuses on practical needs of teams without huge budgets. It describes a development team's journey of experiments and mistakes to design a simple, effective, and diverse recruitment process grounded in the same product-development principles and values they use day-to-day.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:59Traditional hiring problems
- 10:26Selection process principles
- 16:25Job offer design
- 23:29Resume review and first calls
- 26:20Initial interview and team pitch
- 31:39Practical test and roleplay
- 36:36Final CTO call
- 39:26Future improvements and sustainability
- 45:16Internal policy challenges
- 49:56Cost of not hiring and conclusions
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