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High Growth Handbook: Recruiting, hiring, and managing talent

Elad Gil Free Advanced

The recruiting chapter of Elad Gil's handbook is a dense, practical reference on building hiring processes that hold their bar as you scale. It also covers onboarding, which most founders neglect and which is where new engineers quietly fail. The whole chapter is free to read online, so you can go straight to the sections you need.

  • A few lightweight recruiting processes protect quality as you speed up
  • Onboarding is where good hires succeed or silently fall out
  • Hiring for shared values early keeps a small team pulling together
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The question it answers

  1. How do I hire good engineers in India when everyone's competing for the same talent?

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