Look beyond technical skills 🚀

When I'm looking to hire people, it kind of depends on the level too. You know, if we're going for someone with a lot more seniority, they're going to be driving a lot of the work. I look for people who can talk through how they delivered the work that they've done. I'm really interested in the interpersonal skills, like how well can they mentor and help others? Because we hear this, you know, about 10x engineers. I'm not a big fan of or believe in that, but there are those people who can enable others to deliver a lot more. And that's usually when I'm looking at the senior people, how are they enabling others to be more productive, get things done? Besides just the technical skills, which are extremely important, the soft skills are just as important because if they can't help the rest of the team grow and deliver, then it just typically aren't as successful. So I look for people that have really those type of soft skills, and there's been some really good engineers that I hope I will get the opportunity to work with again.