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Convincing engineers to join your team

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Finding a great engineer is only half the battle when everyone is competing for them, and this piece is about the other half: getting the offer accepted. It covers how to present an offer, close on mission and problem, and raise your acceptance rate. Useful precisely because in a talent war your close rate matters as much as your pipeline.

  • Sell the problem and the mission, not just the salary or the title
  • Treat closing a candidate as a deliberate step, not an afterthought
  • Small details in how you present an offer move acceptance rates
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It answers 4 questions

  1. How do I hire good engineers in India when everyone's competing for the same talent?
  2. When should I stop using an agency and hire my first in-house developer?
  3. Is it a mistake to hire one developer to build my whole product alone?
  4. How do I hire a developer without a warm network or startup connections?

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