
#1 - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram
Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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Are You a Good Engineer?
We have found that asking pretty easy any of your questions is often more generally predictive than asking harder interview questions. Being able to answer a question easily is correlated with being an engineer. But there's also, of course, false negatives. So there are great engineers who fail to deal with questions and there are greatEngineers who struggle with questions. The sweet spot is actually far lower on the scale than most people intuitively think.
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