Recruiting, Interviewing, and Hiring Senior Developer Talent

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Senior software engineers are coveted and scarce. Engineering leaders often feel like technical recruiting teams fail to source them and the interviewing process fails to achieve its one goal: hire these critical team members. In this roundtable, engineering leaders from high growth enterprises share their best practices for hiring the teams that will propel their growth. Key topics include: Building and living up to your engineering brand Inclusive interviewing best practices and how to implement them Identifying hiring signal for senior talent About the workshop leader: Lusen Mendel / they / them is Director of Developer Relations at Karat, and speaks regularly about interview best practices for candidates, interviewers and organizations. Before moving to researching and sharing interview insights, they were responsible for hiring and performance managing hundreds of Interview Engineers as Karat's Director of Interviewing. Before Karat, Lusen managed software engineering teams at Indiegogo, Rackspace and Cloudkick, where they realized that fair, consistent and predictive hiring was not a reasonable side project -- it had to be a full-time job.