Title: If you&#x27;re a CTO for a growing startup, this might be a familiar challenge for you.<p>On top of building the product, finding product engineers is becoming one of the hardest things for a CTO to do in 2019, especially in tech hubs like NY and London due to higher demand and competition.<p>This problem is no longer exclusive to the Bay Area. Hiring is time-consuming and expensive, and many startups feel that they can’t compete with some of the top salaries and perks offered by deep-pocketed alternatives.<p>It makes sense to rely on your network to hire the initial few developers, but this approach is not sustainable in the long run.<p>Job boards are getting crowded. Recruiters are generally worse.<p>I&#x27;ve read a lot of stories about using recruitment platforms. Few are great, but many are unpleasant. The flaw with many recruitment companies is they don&#x27;t reliably deliver enough good candidates to build trust.<p>Asking for profile A and getting profile B is a common frustration. For startups, this tends to be a deal-breaker because hiring the wrong candidate has a significant cost and impact on backlog and team.<p>Is it that most recruiters or on-demand marketplaces aren&#x27;t highly technical? Is it that they also suffer from talent shortage?<p>Remote work has been getting a lot of love in recent years to bypass the talent war. Although it has come a long way, it&#x27;s still hard to pull off, especially for companies that are trying to do both local and remote but are not remote-first (think infrastructure and payroll primarily).<p>With that being said. How do startups in hubs currently find great engineers quicker? What&#x27;s an approach that you have been investing in recently to hire product hackers?
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