VP of Engineering Hiring Cheatsheet

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It’s a pretty good list.

However, having the following as “red flags” is a “red flag” to me. Although I’d pass them, they seem more like cultural biases than appropriate measures of quality.

- “Has never worked with a previous teammate in a new company.”

- “Has never participated or built an alumni community based on previous experience”

Some of these concepts sounds like “management from hell” handbook. Sure it’s great if people want to follow you but that also makes you a massive liability to any company hiring you: people will FOLLOW you. How that is considered something positive is beyond me: one day you hear “yeah I got a new job, here’s my notice + 6 different people are leaving too, lol”. I have seen this happen, it really shook the “old team” when one of the guys took all his work friends and moved to another company.

This seems more like a "front-line product manager" hiring cheatsheet.

What would your personal "VP of Engineering Hiring Cheatsheet" look like?

JavaScript dev that failed upwards.

What horrible companies did you work for?

Recently landed my first role I'm actually excited about, but previously it has been a true Decade of Confetti.

This is like a mission statement of how to operate for long term success.

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