What We Look For

LinkedIn structures everyone’s work history the same way. Resumes and porfolio websites are much harder for us to look at. The more information you have on LinkedIn - the stacks you’ve worked with, a brief summary of what type of work you do, a headline with your stack in it - the easier it is for us to assess fit at a glance.

This is an imperfect measure of seniority but it’s visible at a glance and it’s a rough proxy for seniority. Almost every engineer we work with has at least 4-5 years of experience.

This isn’t because we don’t believe folks with less experience can’t do the work we post about, it’s just because on average it will take us fewer interviews to find someone that’s a good fit for a role if we focus on folks with more experience and we’re resource contrained.

If a role requires working with a particular technology like react, python or terraform, we’ll look at your linkedin to see how much experience you have working with that or similar types of things.

You shouldn’t change your linkedin on our behalf but if you don’t have the stacks you’ve worked with in your past roles on linkedin that can make it challenging for us to assess fit as we’re scanning through your profile.

Almost all of our clients are early stage startups and working at early stage companies is typically a pretty different experience from working with much larger companies.

It’s often difficult for us to understand based off of someone’s linkedin profile whether a given company they were working at was an early stage startup or not but when we see clear indications that folks have early stage experience that’s always a plus.

This is far from a hard requirement for our roles but it’s good to see folks with experience working at U.S., Canadian, or European companies.

It indicates that they likely have experience working in an english speaking environment and at places that are culturally similar to the companies that are our clients.

Sometimes we’ll take calls with candidates that we would otherwise pass over because their rate is exceptionally competive given their experience. Likewise if a candidate we’d otherwise like to speak with has a rate that we feel is too high given their experience, we will often skip over that candidate.

It’s often difficult to assess english language skills from a linkedin profile but we do like to see at least some english on linkedin or in typeform. Grammatical mistakes are fine, it’s more just about whether folks are using english or not.