When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling (hiringengineersbook.com)
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dkersten Feb 27, 2019 | on: Ask HN: Finding tech talent is getting harder. It's not a… | context

> ATTRACT decent people

This reminds me of a recent post that rings pretty true: "When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18955731

qnsi Feb 11, 2019 | on: Ask HN: How do you interview senior front end… | context

Hey, just posting an interesting blog post that was linked previously on HN and got 973 upvotes[1]: https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/trouble-hiring/

(I am not affiliated with them in any way)

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18955731

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