Hiring Senior Engineers: What the Interview Loop Can't Tell You
Over two years running engineering hiring at the firm, we made about twenty senior engineering hires. Some were transformative — engineers who raised the quality of everything they touched. Some were neutral — competent contributors who did what was asked and not much more. A few were net negatives. Looking back, the correlation between interview performance and outcome was weaker than I’d expected. The things that predicted good hires were visible in the interview, but we weren’t consistently measuring them. ...