Recruiting Is Harder Than You Think

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i think recruiting has always been hard. It's gotten harder over time. The quality of that early team is like phenomenaltactim a. You know, there's o long larger determinant than the qualiy to predict success. And we focus too much on other things. We focus on processes. Important, yes, and a certain thing oer s in the business are important, but they're like a step down from having people to execute or bring all these things to life.

Erik Bernhardsson joins us on the podcast to chat about building engineering teams and the delicate balance between innovation and productivity as organizations grow.

Erik has been scaling engineering teams for years. In its early days, he managed the analytics and machine learning teams at Spotify. Next, he grew Better's engineering team from 0 to 300, where he was CTO until the beginning of 2021. Erik is now working on a yet-to-be-named project that will bring exciting new tools to data teams.

In this episode, we also shared our views on team mentalities, skunkworks projects, and more as we tried to answer the question: "what is success in engineering?"

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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.co