thoughts around hiring senior & staff engineers w/ dir of eng, harry wolff
guest: harry wolff, director of engineering, identity and access management at mongodb
- get as clear as possible on what you want from a role before you start a senior or staff search
- treat job requirements as two buckets, technical skills and non technical traits like independent thinking and collaboration
- use pragmatic interview questions tied to real day to day work instead of memorization style puzzles
- always leave time at the end of interviews for candidate questions since that signals real curiosity and interest
- cold emailing a hiring manager rarely works, a referral or just applying through the recruiting team is the better path