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#1 - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How Do You Evaluate Experience?

The skill that you need in an employee is quite different. The ability to solve large sprawling problems well, but over a long period of time. People think maybe that senior engineers, you know, respect their senior, they should perform better in an interview. And that's actually not generally true. You will get a job offer after a worse performance.

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