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I've been hired as Engineer #1 at two startups (both doing well). I wrote some thoughts recently about how I was recruited into that role: https://twitter.com/
by philfreo 8y ago
I've been hired as Engineer #1 at two startups (both doing well). I wrote some thoughts recently about how I was recruited into that role:
https://twitter.com/philfreo/status/1012171080834969601 https://twitter.com/philfreo/status/1012171080834969601
On the hiring side, I also incorporated some hard lessons learned about growing our Eng team from 2 to 14 here:
http://philfreo.com/blog/when-who-how-to-hire-an-engineering-team-including-hiring-remotely/ http://philfreo.com/blog/when-who-how-to-hire-an-engineering...
- mark-r 8y agoI've done the #1 employee thing too. The founder was someone I had worked for previously. He was technical enough that I didn't have to worry about growing the team from there, he handled it all.
- orsenthil 8y agoI see you mentioned something like. Make sure you’re still excited after 30 days (or fire fast). That's a big NO-NO for me. 30 days is way too small for any company to make a decision on a hire. It just means your process for hiring is not good. We must start with firing people who were responsible for the that bad hire first.
- alexpetralia 8y agoFantastic blog post on hiring. Thanks!