> Does anyone here (besides Stripe) do this? We did at Microsoft. Honestly, for very experienced and senior people in dev tools, "crazy intensity" were usually

> Does anyone here (besides Stripe) do this? We did at Microsoft. Honestly, for very experienced and senior people in dev tools, "crazy intensity" were usually not needed. Great engineers tend to also have friends who are great engineers, who are being paid at/near the top of their current company, might have been there for the decade, and you might be the first person to contact them in a few years, since they also filter out all LinkedIn or blind recruiter mails. YMMV outside of dev tools, of course. RoR folks are probably getting recruited for all sorts of random places, but there really aren't a lot of dev tools shops, particularly that are building large enough projects to challenge people (e.g. have their own compiler, as opposed to just IDE bits. No offense towards IDE bits intended).