Q2 Hiring Retrospective — wins and learnings

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Office of the Hiring Committee, Cromulent AI (Series B)

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All Engineering

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Q2 Hiring Retrospective — wins and learnings

Summary. This quarter the committee invested 140 engineer-hours interviewing 31 candidates across 7 rounds each, achieving our best-ever rejection accuracy of 100% among candidates who later shipped products at competitors.

Win: Candidate #14 passed all nine rounds. Unfortunately, the role was eliminated to offset the cost of the nine rounds. The committee considers this a strong validation of process.

Learning: Candidate #22 built the open-source scheduler our platform runs on. She was unable, however, to invert a binary tree under time pressure, and the committee agreed we cannot lower the bar.

Action items. (1) Add a round. (2) Update careers page to say "we move fast."

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