Article · long read

Hiring engineers

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A deep, practitioner heavy set of guides from operators who built strong technical teams from scratch, useful once you commit to owning engineering rather than renting it. It gives you the interviewing and evaluation tactics that make an in house team viable. Keep it for the moment you move off an agency and start building the real team.

• Concrete tactics for evaluating engineers at the earliest stage
• Culture and ownership matter as much as raw skill on a small team
• What it takes to build a team that actually owns the outcome