On: Guide to scaling engineering organizations

[grandtour001]

Please no recruiter phone screens. It's just a choreographed dance where everybody knows what's goin to happen. The recruiter sells you the company about x, y, z values that nobody cares about. The candidate says something about looking for bigger opportunities and challenges.

[mratzloff → grandtour001]

If it's rote for you, you probably aren't using those calls effectively to filter based on your dealbreakers.

[wbc → mratzloff]

mind sharing how you use these calls to filter companies?

[mratzloff → wbc]

Company size, team size, role functions, salary range, culture...

[sgustard → wbc]

I have a sizable salary requirement, for one.