Like most engineers in the Bay Area, I get a lot of recruiting emails. I got two today.

One was pretty bad. Multiple spelling and grammar mistakes, unsubstantiated bragging, virtually no description of the role, no description of the company culture

When a new hire joins my team, in our first one-on-one, I give them a spiel that goes something like this...

Because experience doesn’t necessarily make people better at what they do

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