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Designing Your Startup’s Interview Process - byronm.com

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We built our founding team at Accompany by recruiting from within our personal networks. Hiring close friends and colleagues ensured everyone we added to the team was phenomenal, and it let us rely upon our past experience working together in place of a formal interview process. As we started to scale our team, though, we had to expand beyond our personal networks and source candidates we didn’t already know. This meant we had to design an interview process that worked just as effectively. To do so, we approached interviewing very deliberately. We treated our interview process like it was another product we were building — one to be designed and iterated on. This consumed a lot of our team’s creative energy, but it paid to get this right. In the end, we designed an interview process that candidates enjoyed and that consistently led to hiring great engineers. 1 In this post, I’ll present how we designed each step of our interview process and why. Every startup is unique, and their inter

Designing Your Startup’s Interview Process - byronm.com Home Archive About 02 May 2023 Designing Your Startup’s Interview Process We built our founding team at Accompany by recruiting from within our personal networks. Hiring close friends and colleagues ensured everyone we added to the team was phenomenal, and it let us rely upon our past experience working together in place of a formal interview process. As we started to scale our team, though, we had to expand beyond our personal networks and source candidates we didn’t already know. This meant we had to design an interview process that wor

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