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Building an Engineering Team - by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar

Startup School by Y Combinator

CHAPTER

Using a Market Place to Hiring Engineers

A big benefit of using a market place, especially in the early stages, is that they can help you hire very quickly. The downsides are that they tend to be quite competitive so engineers are being reached out by multiple companies at the same time. You'll have to be very effective at giving them to join if you want to make hires. Most market places will work on a fee higher basis, which can be 15 to 20 % of the first year's salary.

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