Hiring multifaceted engineers
Francisco Larrain
Co-founder & CTO
Topsort
Francisco Larrain is the CTO and co-founder at Topsort - a company that provides auction-based ad infrastructure for multi-brand retailers and online marketplaces. Before that, he founded Zapped (payment tech) and ran local engineering at Groupon. In this week's episode, we discuss what he looks for in hiring well rounded engineers for non-trivial domains, his approach to mentorship, and the value of provocations when interviewing engineers.
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Recruiting and retaining engineers in today’s climate is not easy. However, we are going to make it easier by discussing best practices, sharing learnings, success stories and searching for solutions together. We are focused especially on Attracting top talent (brand, comp, mission, positioning, outreach), hiring geographies, interviewing, onboarding, retention, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion topics but also are open to discussing other challenges connected to the Talent subject.
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