Building Jam: The Eng Team Is Growing (Ep. 2)

What happens when you spend months looking for the perfect candidate… And then the engineering team grows by 50% all at once? This week, the Head of Engineering at Jam talks about the challenges of scaling and hiring in our startup.
00:00 Intro
00:26 Why hiring takes so long- 5 months iterating the process!
09:30 What’s going to break: the stuff we know, and what we don’t
11:01 Changing the format of decision-making now that there’s more people (and opinions)
18:30 The different factors that go into choosing the right candidate
20:36 What happens when the team goes from 15 people to 20
22:40 Does anyone know the perfect designer:engineer ratio?
26:57 More team challenges: unexpected hires and financial planning, balancing strategy with execution, and showing up for the team with a meeting-packed calendar
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[@IanMcclanan]

Great job, Tony- loved your insight about the balance in personality types you look for in the hiring process & on the team.

[@daniatjam]

The eng team is growing - what's going to break? Really fun to record with y'all and Tony!

[@johnpence6957]

Hi, what language are you guys using for the backend at Jam?

[@jamdotdev]

Hi John- it's all fullstack javascript/typescript!