Optimizing & Scaling Your Hiring Process w/ Vinithra Varadharajan, Cat Miller & Keng He #50

The Engineering Leadership Podcast

This special feature from the ELC Hiring Summit covers optimizing and scaling your hiring process! You’ll learn signs that indicate it’s time to optimize/scale, tactics to create a consistent hiring bar, key metrics to measure efficiency, feedback loops & more with Catherine Miller (VPE @ Flatiron Health) Vinithra Varadharajan (Head of Platform Eng @ Airtable) & Keng He (Sr. Director of Eng @ LiveRamp).

SHOWNOTES

• The current size and scale of Cat/Vinithra’s engineering teams + their current hiring process (1:55)
• Early signs indicating it’s time to optimize or scale your current hiring process (3:34)
• Tactics to ensure you have a consistent hiring bar (5:28)
• Why engineering rubrics are essential to your hiring process (7:48)
• How to encourage engineers to become interviewers (when resistant to interviewing candidates) (9:41)
• Interview panel structures (17:13)
• Key metrics to measure efficiency in your hiring process (21:24)
• How many recruiters, sourcers or coordinators do you need? (22:33)
• How has remote work changed your hiring process? (24:11)
• Who owns the top of the funnel in your hiring process? (25:48)
• What are the feedback loops you have in your hiring process? (27:17)
• How do you mitigate concerns candidates have about their potential managers in your hiring process? (28:30)
  

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