> "My evidence isn't that great I admit. I've only helped build 3 unicorns (helped found one of them) and started 3 $1M+ companies as a solo founder." Again wi

> "My evidence isn't that great I admit. I've only helped build 3 unicorns (helped found one of them) and started 3 $1M+ companies as a solo founder." Again with the awkward appeal to authority. Cut straight to it. Your post's title is "how to hire actually good engineers". So how many of those have you actually hired? How many of them stayed there 2 years into their roles? How do you know you've actually hired "good" engineers, and not just people you yourself thought were good enough at the time you interviewed and hired them? Have you actually followed up on your hires 3/6/12 months into their roles, to check that they're still as good as you thought they were? By the way - "$1M+" sounds like a particularly low budget for "actually good engineers", ironically enough.