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title: "Hiring"
description: "44 posts about Hiring, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Hiring
> 44 posts about Hiring, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In fact, we insist](https://yomu.fyi/post/yes-you-can-use-ai-in-our-interviews-in-fact-we-insist.md)
- Company: [Canva](https://yomu.fyi/company/canva.md)
- Author: Simon Newton
- Published: Jun 11, 2025
- Type: Announcement

Canva has updated its technical hiring process to require backend, machine learning, and frontend engineering candidates to utilize artificial intelligence tools such as Copilot, Cursor, and Claude during interviews. The transition addresses the limitations of traditional computer science fundamentals tests, which focused on writing algorithmic code from scratch even though AI assistants can generate complete solutions in seconds. To better evaluate on-the-job engineering capabilities, the company replaced its legacy screening with an AI-assisted coding competency that features complex, ambiguous product challenges such as designing an airport control system. Interviewers assess how candidates clarify requirements, guide tools on subtasks, debug flawed output, and verify that AI-generated code meets production quality standards. Candidates receive advance notice of these expectations, helping ensure prospective hires demonstrate strong engineering judgment when collaborating with assistive coding technologies.


### [Early team](https://yomu.fyi/post/early-team.md)
- Company: [Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/company/cursor.md)
- Author: Sualeh Asif
- Published: Apr 26, 2025
- Type: Announcement

Cursor introduces a representative sample of the people on its team and collaborators, spanning infrastructure, distributed systems, AI research, design, performance, and product development. The profiles include Aman Karmani, Jeremy Stribling, Jacob Jackson, Ian Huang, Sasha Rush, Alex Haugland, Ryo Lu, Lukas Möller, Jack Gallagher, and Michael Feldstein, with prior work at GitHub, Keybase, OpenAI, Cornell, Google, Notion, DeepJudge, Midjourney, Figma, and Meta. Their cited work includes KBFS, speculative decoding, a browser-based multiplayer Minecraft engine, language-model efficiency and long-context research, Cursor’s in-house inference engine, and Midjourney pretraining and reinforcement learning. The post invites people interested in transformational AI products, frontier RL, AI infrastructure, or distributed systems to contact hiring@cursor.com.


### [Engineering Management](https://yomu.fyi/post/engineering-management.md)
- Company: [Ramp](https://yomu.fyi/company/ramp.md)
- Author: Patrick Anderson
- Published: Nov 11, 2023
- Type: Explainer

The post presents an engineering-leadership perspective on how the author incepted and grew Ramp’s Core Engineering team from zero to 50+ engineers, while noting that the guidance is shaped by a company under Dunbar’s number. It defines an engineering manager’s role as unblocking reports, appreciating their contributions with technical depth, and helping them advance through the leveling deck. The central leadership practice is “pay attention”: build a coherent organizational model, maintain consistent direction, understand motivations, and avoid feedback that misses important tradeoffs. Core Engineering favored hiring individual-contributor engineers and moving some gradually into management after testing their aptitude. The post also presents one-on-ones as a way to build organizational context, and describes slow growth, intern mentorship, and prompt dispute resolution as forms of compounding management quality.


### [Securing Diversity in Cybersecurity](https://yomu.fyi/post/securing-diversity-in-cybersecurity.md)
- Company: [Nextdoor](https://yomu.fyi/company/nextdoor.md)
- Author: Kristen Beneduce
- Published: May 2, 2023
- Type: Announcement

Securing global community platforms requires diverse engineering and security teams, yet hiring and retaining female talent remains a significant challenge across the cybersecurity sector. Industry figures indicate that women represent twenty-five percent of the cybersecurity workforce and hold sixteen percent of CISO positions, frequently encountering limited growth opportunities and lack of respect. To address these representation gaps, Nextdoor partnered with the Women in Cybersecurity Silicon Valley chapter to host a panel event at its headquarters alongside RSAC 2023. Security leaders and CISOs addressed subjects spanning modern technical threats including artificial intelligence, professional imposter syndrome, and the strategic value diverse viewpoints bring to organizational problem-solving. The gathering brought together students, industry practitioners, and executives from academia and government to support community mentorship and career advancement.


### [Who We Hire at Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/post/who-we-hire-at-supabase.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: ant\_wilson
- Published: Dec 9, 2022
- Type: Explainer

Supabase describes the hiring traits and operating model it believes support its growth, arguing that people matter more than methodology. It looks for extreme asynchronous effectiveness, egoless execution, continuous incremental improvement, a bias toward immediate action, ambitious problem-solving, and a founder mindset; seniority does not exempt anyone from independent-contributor work, self-management, or maintenance. The 60-person team spans 25 countries, uses meetings as a last resort, and gives autonomous product teams access to shared metrics, user feedback, and equity through an ESOP. Teams are organised around products such as Postgres, Auth, Storage, Realtime, and Functions, while cross-cutting groups consult rather than merely receive delegated tasks. Three-month product cycles set ambitious goals, and Kaizen Weeks focused on QA, documentation, and performance help address technical debt and incorporate improvements into ongoing workflows.


### [Shopify’s Technical Interview Process: What to Expect and How to Prepare](https://yomu.fyi/post/shopify-s-technical-interview-process-what-to-expect-and-how-to-prepar.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Jul 7, 2022
- Type: Explainer

Shopify’s guide outlines the interview process for individual-contributor technical roles, while noting that stages can vary by role and team and that leadership hiring may add team-specific interviews. Candidates may have a one-hour recruiter “Life Story” conversation, a 40-minute CoderPad coding exercise, a 75–90-minute remote pair-programming session, and a 60-minute Technical Deep Dive focused on previous projects. The coding exercise assesses algorithmic thinking and problem solving, while pairing emphasizes communication, implementation, edge cases, scalability, limitations, and testability. The deep dive asks candidates to discuss impact, architecture, technical decisions, trade-offs, failures, successes, lessons learned, teamwork, and mentorship; the guide also recommends clarifying questions, running code early, using permitted references, and choosing projects they know well.


### [We Raised $100 Million for Open & Collaborative Machine Learning 🚀](https://yomu.fyi/post/we-raised-100-million-for-open-collaborative-machine-learning.md)
- Company: [Hugging Face](https://yomu.fyi/company/hugging-face.md)
- Author: system
- Published: May 9, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Hugging Face announced a 100 million dollar Series C funding round led by Lux Capital, alongside participants including Sequoia, Coatue, and several angel investors. The platform hosts over 100,000 pre-trained models and 10,000 datasets spanning natural language processing, computer vision, speech, and other scientific domains for more than 10,000 customer organizations. The company plans to use the capital to expand research, open-source initiatives, tooling, and efforts focused on mitigating machine learning limitations like biases, privacy risks, and energy consumption. In addition, the organization is directing the BigScience research workshop with over 1,000 participants to train a massive open-source multilingual language model. Following organizational growth from 30 to more than 120 employees in twelve months, the remote-friendly company is actively hiring across all positions and seniority levels.


### [Should I Open Source my Company?](https://yomu.fyi/post/should-i-open-source-my-company.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Ant Wilson
- Published: Mar 25, 2022
- Type: Explainer

Software founders often hesitate to make their companies open source due to concerns regarding code scrutiny, security exploits, and intellectual property theft. Supabase operated as an open-source business from its inception, finding that community scrutiny actually accelerates code refactoring and surfaces security vulnerabilities early through public reporting channels. In addition, rapid execution and developer experience provide stronger competitive defenses against larger competitors than proprietary code obfuscation or software patents. Open repos also transformed the company's hiring strategy by replacing traditional take-home tests and LeetCode interviews with evaluation of real-world pull requests and asynchronous discussions. Finally, external contributors expand product capability by independently developing niche integrations and platform adapters that core startup teams lack the bandwidth to build.


### [Machine Learning Experts - Margaret Mitchell](https://yomu.fyi/post/machine-learning-experts-margaret-mitchell.md)
- Company: [Hugging Face](https://yomu.fyi/company/hugging-face.md)
- Author: Britney Muller
- Published: Mar 23, 2022
- Type: Explainer

Machine learning models often internalize harmful dataset skews and fail to evaluate real-world contexts accurately. During work on vision-to-language generation, visual recognition systems learned to misinterpret destructive disasters as positive scenes because training images predominantly featured sunsets and fireworks. Addressing these structural flaws requires moving beyond benchmark optimization toward critical data analysis, dataset genealogies, and standardized ethical AI protocols. ML organizations must establish shared vocabularies for power differentials and dismantle competitive cultural norms that marginalize underrepresented contributors. Furthermore, lowering technical barriers—such as enabling non-engineers to inspect data without SQL—allows diverse stakeholders to evaluate models and prevent widening societal power divides.


### [Announcing the 🤗 AI Research Residency Program](https://yomu.fyi/post/announcing-the-ai-research-residency-program.md)
- Company: [Hugging Face](https://yomu.fyi/company/hugging-face.md)
- Author: Douwe Kiela
- Published: Mar 22, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Hugging Face launched a nine-month Research Residency Program designed to train participants into impactful machine learning researchers. Residents collaborate directly with researchers from the Science Team to formulate research questions, develop novel machine learning techniques, and openly publish their findings. The initiative specifically encourages proposals from marginalized groups—including women, LGBTQ+ individuals, people of color, and working-class communities—to address disparities exacerbated by artificial intelligence progress. Applicants must demonstrate mathematical and programming abilities through coursework, open-source projects, and end-to-end proposals targeting positive societal impact. The full-time role is fully remote, provides benefits including medical coverage depending on location, and excludes concurrent student enrollment or employment.


### [How to Get an Engineering Internship at Shopify: A Complete Guide](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-to-get-an-engineering-internship-at-shopify-a-complete-guide.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Feb 18, 2022
- Type: Tutorial

Shopify’s guide describes its engineering internship program as a way for students, recent graduates, career switchers, and bootcamp graduates to gain hands-on experience through real projects and practical feedback. Internships last three to eight months and span front-end, back-end, infrastructure, data, and mobile development, with three application cycles each year. Applicants submit an online application, complete an Intern Challenge or specialization-specific skills assessment, and progress through a two-phase interview involving a Life Story conversation and a technical solution. The guide identifies collaboration, lifelong learning, curiosity, GitHub experience, remote-work experience, communication, and accountability as important skills, while recommending practice challenges, project portfolios, and company research; 98% of respondents in Shopify’s latest intern satisfaction survey said they would recommend the program.


### [Lessons from my internship at Ramp](https://yomu.fyi/post/lessons-from-my-internship-at-ramp.md)
- Company: [Ramp](https://yomu.fyi/company/ramp.md)
- Author: Nathan H. Leung
- Published: Oct 28, 2021
- Type: Explainer

The author reflects on a three-month software engineering internship at Ramp from March to June, describing lessons about execution, company choice, and location. Ramp’s charge card appeared to be a commodity, but the author credits its bias for shipping quickly, technical and product strength, differentiated technology, and favorable capital secured through finance expertise with turning it into a distinctive product. Compared with more formal, lower-stakes internships, Ramp offered flexibility, mentorship, and exposure to a fast-growing organization, although its pace and limited documentation could be challenging. The experience also shaped the author’s view that working on large problems at such a company can magnify impact, while New York provided experiences and a tech community distinct from San Francisco’s.


### [Making big bets in business](https://yomu.fyi/post/making-big-bets-in-business.md)
- Company: [Ramp](https://yomu.fyi/company/ramp.md)
- Author: Karim Atiyeh
- Published: Oct 12, 2021
- Type: Explainer

The post argues that startups should pursue asymmetric outcomes: bets with potentially large upside and limited, manageable downside, rather than optimizing for average advice or minimizing every risk. Drawing on the founders’ experience building Paribus and Ramp, it applies this principle to choosing a problem space, hiring, vendors, product development, and fundraising. An outsized seed round enabled Ramp to pursue financial services despite high barriers to entry, while early hiring favored exceptional, fast-growing people over candidates who matched every competency checklist. It also recommends testing scrappy vendors, listening to customer problems rather than proposed solutions, and selecting reputable investors with clean terms. Ramp’s counterexample is credit risk: because revenue is about 1% of lending, a mistake can cost roughly 100 times its reward, so threatening risks should be isolated from bolder bets.


### [Fly.io Is Hiring Full-Stack Developers](https://yomu.fyi/post/fly-io-is-hiring-full-stack-developers.md)
- Company: [Fly.io](https://yomu.fyi/company/fly-io.md)
- Published: Sep 1, 2021
- Type: Announcement

Fly.io is seeking early-to-mid-level full-stack developers to work on customer-facing parts of its global application-hosting product. The role sits in a CLI-first organization whose UX stack combines Rails, GraphQL, and Go, with more Elixir and Phoenix planned, while the broader platform uses Rust and Go. Candidates are not expected to be Rails or Elixir experts; the stated bar is the ability to learn unfamiliar code and produce work that holds up, including deploying an application end to end and building browser UI components. Hiring centers on untimed work-sample challenges based on the team’s actual work rather than resume screening, interview gauntlets, or gotchas. The remote full-time role offers US healthcare, flexible vacation, hardware and phone allowances, and $120k–$140k plus equity.


### [Supabase Partners With Strive School To Help Teach Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-partners-with-strive-school-to-help-teach-open-source.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Rory Wilding
- Published: Dec 2, 2020
- Type: Announcement

Supabase has partnered with fellow Y Combinator Summer 20 alumni Strive School to teach upcoming software engineers open-source development practices. Strive School operates an eight-month training program in Europe covering full-stack web and artificial intelligence engineering, with students paying tuition only after securing employment. Through this collaboration, Supabase aims to improve relational database instruction using Postgres while producing exclusive educational content for the program. In addition to creating learning materials, Supabase is hiring a Strive School graduate as an intern to integrate new engineering talent into its team. Supabase is also introducing a Student Developer Pack offering two years of free platform credits, Slack community access, founder office hours, and merchandise.


### [Supabase Alpha June 2020](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-alpha-june-2020.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Paul Copplestone
- Published: Jul 1, 2020
- Type: Announcement

Four months into development, Supabase released its June 2020 alpha update focused on simplifying PostgreSQL management and eliminating regional performance bottlenecks. The release introduces a spreadsheet-like interface for drilling down into relational tables alongside automated detection and editing support for JSON and JSONB columns. To address latency issues previously caused by hosting all projects exclusively in Singapore, the platform now allows developers to select specific database regions. In line with its zero lock-in principle, Supabase exposed daily backups on the dashboard and enhanced the SQL editor with improved syntax highlighting. The team also expanded by hiring PostgREST maintainer Steve Chavez while continuing efforts toward future multi-region replication and WAL-G backup integration.


### [7 Fun Facts about Grab’s Driver-Partners in Singapore](https://yomu.fyi/post/7-fun-facts-about-grab-s-driver-partners-in-singapore.md)
- Company: [Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab.md)
- Author: Lara PuReum Yim
- Published: Mar 20, 2020
- Type: Explainer

Grab analyzed ride-hailing metrics from driver-partners operating in Singapore to identify platform usage trends and driving patterns. Findings indicate that drivers have a 1 in 400 chance of encountering a repeat passenger among the 5.4 million population, with Tampines recording the most pickups and Orchard and Marina Bay serving as top destinations in 2018. Driver behavior data shows that partners with over two years of platform experience routinely start shifts an hour earlier and leverage auto-accept features to minimize idle waiting time. Furthermore, drivers are twice as likely to receive back-to-back ride allocations during evening peak hours, resulting in roughly 50% higher hourly earnings. The dataset also highlights customer satisfaction metrics, showing that shared GrabShare rides achieved an average rating of 4.8 stars.


### [How Shopify Scales Up Its Development Teams](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-shopify-scales-up-its-development-teams.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Sep 26, 2019
- Type: Explainer

The article argues that scaling development is primarily about creating more effective teams, not simply increasing headcount. It first recommends checking whether an existing team prioritizes impactful work, minimizes supporting activity, and can ship code quickly while finding bugs; otherwise hiring may be premature. Shopify organizes product work into problem spaces and teams of five to nine, uses a multi-step process combining technical exercises with cultural assessment, and aims for at least as many onboarded members as onboarding members. New teams receive a baseline for work practices and technology, while transparent technical design, shared tooling with dashboards and embedded quality and testing standards, optional pairing, and frequent retrospectives support consistency and learning. The conclusion is that these practices, rather than hiring alone, enable development teams to scale more effectively.


### [Lessons from Leading a Remote Engineering Team](https://yomu.fyi/post/lessons-from-leading-a-remote-engineering-team.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Jul 25, 2019
- Type: Explainer

Managing remote engineering teams can expand hiring beyond office locations, support a more diverse workforce, retain employees through relocations, and enable distributed coverage such as 24/7 support. The guidance describes building such teams around relationships, trust, and communication, with “Default to open internally” and “Charge your trust battery” as supporting cultural values. It recommends asynchronous documentation and discussion in email, GitHub issues, Google Docs, and project systems, supplemented by a fixed weekly synchronous meeting and shared core hours. Managers should also support healthy home workspaces, maintain regular one-on-ones and timely contact, arrange selective in-person sessions, and actively champion remote employees’ visibility, recognition, and career progression. The approach requires deliberate effort but can provide hiring, composition, retention, and strategic benefits.


### [The Art of Hiring Good Engineers](https://yomu.fyi/post/the-art-of-hiring-good-engineers.md)
- Company: [Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab.md)
- Author: Rachel Lee
- Published: Oct 4, 2017
- Type: Explainer

Building and scaling engineering teams requires adapting recruitment strategies across different organizational sizes, from initial hires to hundreds of engineers. Teams often begin with small groups of battle-tested engineers before designing formal hiring pipelines. The recruitment approach outlines four key steps: sourcing top-tier talent from platforms like GitHub and LinkedIn, assessing technical fit through tailored screens or assignments, evaluating cross-functional and culture fit via group interviews, and optimizing the process. This optimization includes routing candidates strategically to strict bar-raiser interviewers to prevent burnout and expedite decisions.


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