Engineering the Engineering Team
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Stytch is a Series B developer platform with about 70 people, $125M raised, and thousands of developers using a dozen authentication methods. Hiring focuses on ambitious and empathetic candidates, rigorous technical interviews plus reference calls, and adding a technical recruiter under ten people. Onboarding starts during interviews, uses a Zoom bomb welcome, and aims for engineers to ship code day one. Organization evolves from founder-managed IC work to managers hiring teams, then to a head of engineering as the role shifts from coding to scaling people.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The origin of Stitch
- 2:17Founder roles and evolution
- 5:49Team building philosophy
- 10:09Assessing talent and impact
- 12:42Recruiting in practice
- 14:45Onboarding for success
- 21:29Scaling as a founder
