So You Want To Hire for Platform Engineering?
Talkat Platform Engineering Day 2025 - Europe · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 10:00· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F·
summary
Practical hiring playbook: design an open book interview loop that allows internet and AI, measures after‑hire indicators, and ditch whiteboard puzzles; aim for generalists who can grow into leaders rather than “passionate” grinders; prioritize intellectual humility and systems thinking in exercises that require cross‑team troubleshooting, not memorized algorithms. Example outcome: built a pipeline and hired 16 people in eight weeks while meeting diversity goals by widening the candidate pool and tracking real job performance.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Tech hiring today
- 3:11Platform engineering concepts
- 4:34Hiring platform engineers
- 7:03First platform team
- 8:06Hired 16 engineers in 8 weeks
- 9:31Effective interview pipeline
- 10:55Hiring pipeline failures
- 14:52Passion as hiring metric
- 17:52Data-driven hiring pool
- 20:06Systems thinking in hiring
- 21:49Platform engineers as capacity
- 22:30Hiring for systems thinking
- 23:32Rethinking hiring excellence
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