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How to find great senior engineers

March 22, 2022 /
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Hiring experienced engineers is one of the most difficult and important things that engineering leaders have to pull off. But it’s hard to gauge experience in a series of short interviews. I’ve definitely worked with some amazing engineers who probably wouldn’t have been hired in some of my previous hiring pipelines.

Here are some tips on things I’ve found that work and don’t work.

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The Googler’s Dilemma: Why Experience Will Always Have a Premium

March 21, 2022 /

I’ve been thinking recently about how to discover and hire great engineers in the hottest job market in decades. One of the biggest hurdles to hiring good engineers, and especially experienced engineers, is that they’re so. unbelievably. expensive.

Just take a look at some of the total compensation packages on levels.fyi:

Data is for GOOG (other companies are similar). Courtesy of the data at Levels.fyi (htps://www.levels.fyi/charts.html). This data was eyeballed quickly into a spreadsheet, check the source for actuals.
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