Building Senior Engineers
summary
Argues that interviews are the highest-leverage place to build senior engineers and gives concrete practices: define clear hiring values, ask questions that reveal communication, curiosity, passion and determination, give actionable feedback (for example “brush up on your algorithms”), and run onboarding with a first project plus a buddy, pair programming and frequent code reviews. Also recommends apprenticeships, meetups (RailsBridge, FreeCodeCamp) and published team values; claims these steps raise team quality, shorten hiring time, and produce more qualified candidates.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 12:02What's working?
- 17:04Communication
- 19:20Curiosity
- 23:39Passion
- 26:00Determination
- 32:15Have a detailed plan for success
- 36:16What else can you do?
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