Engineering manager · Hiring and hard conversations

Hiring, rubrics and growing a team

"How do you recruit good engineers" and "how would you grow this team from four to forty" are both questions about systems, not taste. The answer that scores describes a structured process, a rubric with named signals, and an honest position on what you would give up when hiring fast.

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"How do you recruit good engineers" and "how would you grow this team from four to forty" are both questions about systems, not taste. The answer that scores describes a structured process, a rubric with named signals, and an honest position on what you would give up when hiring fast. This walkthrough runs about 25 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read. A new account gets 7 days of Pro free, no card required.

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