How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams
<i>Referrals - Referrals tend to be a really fantastic way to bring people in and should be the first place you go. If you leverage each of your first ten hires’ networks, chances are you’ll meet some excellent candidates. When done right, internal and external referrals can scale your company pretty efficiently. Sit down and get your engineers to physically list out the best and smartest people they’ve ever worked with and then go after them with crazy intensity. As an added bonus, referral candidates might be easier to close because a friend’s recommendation goes a long way.</i><p>Does anyone here (besides Stripe) do this? Systematically meet with team members to get lists of recruiting targets? What does "go after them with crazy intensity" mean?<p>This is Stripe's most successful recruiting channel so I'd definitely like to understand it better!