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theme: ../../../slidev-theme
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title: "So you want to hire engineering force multipliers?"
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author: Hazel Weakly
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# front matter for first slide
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layout: fact
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# So You Want to Hire Engineering Force Multipliers?
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# What's the Talk About?
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::left::
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We're covering:
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- What force multipliers actually look like
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- Interviews in the age of AI
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- How to improve and debug your interview process
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::right::
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This is **not**:
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- A comprehensive guide to _everything_ on hiring
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# Force Multipliers and Innovation
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Cumulative culture. Intellectual humility. Ecological awe.
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The core of intellectual humility is a meta-cognitive ability to recognize the limits of one's beliefs and knowledge.
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# Hiring in the<br/> AI Era
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The best way to win is to not play the "are you cheating" game.
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# Writing a Better Interview
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1. Experiment a lot
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2. Select for factors that are "impossible" to game
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3. Identify signals that show **regardless of socioeconomic background**
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# The Privilege Factor
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Socioeconomic environments influence social cognition
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Marginalized $\rightarrow$ via cultural processes
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Privileged $\rightarrow$ via technical processes
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Most interviews only test technical _solutions_ to "technical problems"
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The important part for hiring is the author's observation that the conditions in lower class communities promote social cognition via cultural processes
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Concretely: rather than looking for social cognition signals _only_ via technical process, I teach interviewers to identify fluency signals of cultural _and_ technical processes.
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I also structure systems questions to bring out both skill-sets.
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# Impact requires technical _and_ cultural problem solving skills
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# Designing a Better Interview
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# Exercise Time!
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1. Write out your favorite "system design" interview question
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2. Follow along with me and we'll improve it
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3. Then we'll debug it and iterate
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# System Design
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> "How would you approach splitting a monolith?"
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it primes the interviewer to look for a specific architecture and approach
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towards "thinking out loud" and its overly biased towards "technical" cognition
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# Identify What Good _Can_ Look Like
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<Transform :scale="1.4">
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1. What is the "cultural" approach to this?
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2. What's the "technical" approach to this?
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For each one, write down
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# Splitting a Monolith
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(Hazel's Example Answer)
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- What is the "cultural" approach to this?
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- Ways of working, teaching teams to work collaboratively, identifying potential services by team surveys, ...
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- Positive indicator: Solving communication barriers
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- Why: Explicit communication balances losing the implicit context of a single codebase
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- Negative indicator: Introducing process without context
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- Why: Teams will work around process if it hampers productivity
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# Compensate for Bias
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> "How would you approach splitting a monolith?"
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> **Let's work together** and examine the **process** of splitting a monolith.
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> How would you approach this **culturally and technically**?
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> **Let's focus on the human elements first**.
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# Validate Your Signals
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- Do only men pass the technical interview?
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- Does the "systems interview" weed out non-native english speakers?
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- Do you primarily hand out offers to one demographic?
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- Do regretted hires follow a predictable pattern?
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<sup>(I have personally observed every single one of these)</sup>
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# Iterate!
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# 10x engineers don't exist, but engineers that help build 10x healthier teams do.
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# Hiring Force Multipliers is Hiring for Distributed Social Cognition
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# Resources
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- https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S1364-6613(23)00066-9
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- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00081-9

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