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#1 - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How Much Feedback Do You Get From Your Interview Process?

We screen engineers, we send them to companies and then they do the interview there and we get feedback. And it's just pretty incredible how, how, how much disagreement there is. Knowing that an engineer did well at one company gives you as much information about whether that engineer is skilled as knowing if a New York Times film critic rated 12 years of slave excellent or terrible. We've found that bigger companies rely more on that hyperventil view.

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