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Intro As someone who’s worked as a data lead or head of engineering for the past years, I’ve learned a lot about finding and hiring great engineers. In this post, I want to share my insights, tips and tricks, and tactics to succeed in recruiting software developers, data engineers/scientists, and other related software roles in the context of a tech startup. What will you get to read Recruitment process How I evaluate candidates How to find good candidates This blogpost is written from the perspective of a head/VP of engineering, CTO, or similar at a small startup....

In September 2018 I joined Debricked as the very interesting combination of a Machine Learning Engineer and Sales with the perception that the SaaS product was “done” and ready to take on the world. We just needed to add some more ML-enabled capabilities and off we go! We were wrong.. so so wrong. About a year later I was recognized as a Co-Founder, and have continually thrown spaghetti [and my head] against the wall to see what sticks with customers....