Following up on this more than a year later, I can vouch for some but not all of these conclusions based on my experience at the high-impact organization I work for, the Human Diagnosis Project (www.humandx.org).
We’ve found it very difficult to recruit high-quality value-aligned engineers despite the fact that none of the above items really apply to us.
Our software engineering team performs very challenging work all over the stack—including infrastructure, backend, and mobile.
Working here is probably great for career development (in part because we’re on the bleeding edge of numerous technologies and give our engineers exposure to many technologies).
We pay similar salaries to other early-stage startups in Silicon Valley (and New York).
On problem I can identify right now is that I’ve attempted to recruit from the EA community a few times with very limited success. Perhaps I’ve gone about this via the wrong fora or have made other mistakes, but I’ve found that generally any candidates I did find were not good fits for the roles that we have to offer.
This problem continues to this day. Given that we don’t have the issues identified above (to my knowledge), my best hypothesis right now is that we’re simply unable to reach the right people in the right way—and I’m not sure how to fix that. If anyone has any particular ideas on this front, I’d love to hear them.
That said, if anyone wants to help us out, we’re still actively recruiting for a host of roles, including a lot of engineering positions. To learn more, take a look at https://www.humandx.org/team
Following up on this more than a year later, I can vouch for some but not all of these conclusions based on my experience at the high-impact organization I work for, the Human Diagnosis Project (www.humandx.org).
We’ve found it very difficult to recruit high-quality value-aligned engineers despite the fact that none of the above items really apply to us.
Our software engineering team performs very challenging work all over the stack—including infrastructure, backend, and mobile.
Working here is probably great for career development (in part because we’re on the bleeding edge of numerous technologies and give our engineers exposure to many technologies).
We pay similar salaries to other early-stage startups in Silicon Valley (and New York).
On problem I can identify right now is that I’ve attempted to recruit from the EA community a few times with very limited success. Perhaps I’ve gone about this via the wrong fora or have made other mistakes, but I’ve found that generally any candidates I did find were not good fits for the roles that we have to offer.
This problem continues to this day. Given that we don’t have the issues identified above (to my knowledge), my best hypothesis right now is that we’re simply unable to reach the right people in the right way—and I’m not sure how to fix that. If anyone has any particular ideas on this front, I’d love to hear them.
That said, if anyone wants to help us out, we’re still actively recruiting for a host of roles, including a lot of engineering positions. To learn more, take a look at https://www.humandx.org/team