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Candor (https://candor.co/) helps employees at public companies manage their employee equity. Hiring engineers with experience building high-reliability, mission-critical systems.
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Hi, this is David — lots of movement in tech hiring in the last few days. Spent some time to put together a list of companies freezing hiring or doing layoffs.
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Product engineers are entrepreneurs in waiting who have yet to find product-market fit with an idea of their own. They've typically tried a few times, but haven't yet won at the startup roulette.
Product engineers and entrepreneurs get along so well because they're the same breed of people. Great entrepreneurs are often product engineers.
Full stack engineers are generalist engineers who are motivated by technical problems. Product engineers are motivated by building impactful tools. They learnt programming somewhere along the way as a necessity to show the world their ideas.
Product engineers generally pick mainstream languages and tools. They talk about users, strategy and product.
In general, anything that moves the interview from adversarial to collaborative is a big win. In many ways, interviewing is a lot less about assessing skill and a lot more about creating affection between two strangers.
This is a very strong feeling of mine and early reviewers of the essay railed at that frustration. It's striking how much the hiring dance feels full of misplaced energy.
There's no doubt hiring for product engineers is horribly broken, and in a way that holds back the entire ecosystem.
The essay is not about interviewing, because I don't have strong alternatives to suggest.
First we need vocabulary, then we'll need process. I'm in a quest to understand how to hire for this role: I'll write a new essay once I understand it.
Hardware teams have been explicit about this role for a long time. I wish I had first-hand experience of hardware product engineering, but it's certainly an inspiration for this essay.