The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring: Align your team to avoid expensive hiring mistakes.

by Osman (Ozzie) Osman, Aditya Agarwal (Contributor), Alex Allain (Contributor)

Learn how the best teams hire software engineers and fill technical roles. The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring is the authoritative guide to growing software engineering teams effectively, written by and for hiring managers, recruiters, interviewers, and candidates. Hiring is rated as one of the biggest obstacles to growth by most CEOs. Hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers all wrestle with how to source candidates, interview fairly and effectively, and ultimately motivate the right candidates to accept offers. Yet the process is costly, frustrating, and often stressful or unfair to candidates. Anyone who cares about building effective software teams will return to this book again and again. Inside, you'll find know-how from some of the most insightful and experienced leaders and practitioners—senior engineers, recruiters, entrepreneurs, and hiring managers—who’ve built teams from early-stage startups to thousand-person engineering organizations. The lead author of this guide, Ozzie Osman, previously led product engineering at Quora and teams at Google, and built (and sold) his own startup. Additional contributors include Aditya Agarwal, former CTO of Dropbox; Jennifer Kim, former head of diversity at Lever; veteran recruiters and startup founders Jose Guardado (founder of Build Talent and former Y Combinator) and Aline Lerner (CEO of Interviewing.io); and over a dozen others. Recruiting and hiring can be done well, in a way that has a positive impact on companies, employees, and every candidate. With the right foundations and practice, teams and candidates can approach a stressful and difficult process with knowledge and confidence. Ask your employer if you can expense this book—it's one of the highest-leverage investments they can make in your team. This print edition also includes a special upgrade offer for full digital access on Holloway.com, with lifetime access to online resources, content updates, and multiple DRM-free download formats. "Without a doubt, this guide is the best resource I’ve read on technical hiring, by a substantial margin. " --Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Dropbox formerly Blink Health, Etsy "The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring is invaluable—it gives you the kind of insight and wisdom that is usually only found through hard earned experience, right at your fingertips. Save yourself, your company, and your future employees the trouble of learning it the hard way, and read this guide instead. " --Adam Jacob, Co-Founder of Chef "People are the lifeblood of your company, because without them, there is no company. This guide is mandatory reading for anyone who is in a hiring manager or interviewing role and wants a practical, step-by-step playbook to set up technical recruiting and hiring processes for success. Holloway has curated actionable advice, resources, and battle-tested approaches from the best hiring managers and veteran recruiters in the tech community—honest advice you won't find anywhere else, that can be implemented by your team tomorrow. " --Tammy Han, Head of Talent at Emergence Capital

438 pages, Hardcover

Published June 22, 2020