Anthropic looks for two types of people: creative builders with strong product sense who iterate based on feedback, and deep systems experts who tackle hard technical problems. One speaker realized their team had good generalists but lacked the systems expertise needed to ship ambitious products.
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The two profiles that you now look for when you're hiring are creative builders with product sense and deep systems experts for the hard parts.
When I first joined Cloud Code, we had really great product generalists, and then I realized, oh, we were missing folks with a systems background. The models are really good, but there are definitely a lot of areas that still need the verification. And so wherever you need the deep subject matter expertise, I would say that's an area to definitely still invest in. And the other one is the product sense folks, almost like the dreamers. These are folks that usually will be like, oh my gosh, you're really passionate about about a product, and they have an idea, they build it, and then it's always like looking at the feedback and then iterating and polishing and making sure that the product is a delightful experience. That's another skill set that served us really well in Cloud Code.