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The Complete Guide to Hiring Your First Engineer

Ves Todorov · Wellfound Free Beginner

A step-by-step guide from a startup hiring platform that covers sourcing, referrals, and being open to remote to widen a thin talent pool. It is practical about starting with your network and using referral bounties to pull good people out of friends' networks. A solid operational checklist for the first technical hire.

  • Start with your network because you already have signal on those people
  • Referral bounties turn your team's contacts into a sourcing channel
  • Being open to remote candidates can expand your pool dramatically
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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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