{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fessamcafe.com%2Fepisodes%2Fmike-jones-Mg_6x9GM","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Essam Cafe: Hiring in Silicon Valley with Mike Jones","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a566bf74-b141-4bfa-8358-0950361c449c/36a599f2-34ec-4eb5-9355-0f727a8ab0c1/02-qahwet-3esam-banners-3000x3000.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTfSOY9bMsI \n\nSome of the questions that we went through:\n\n- I see from your education that you are more of a business person which seems to align with Netflix strategy on (recruiting should understand business), how did that help you? And how did you manage to recruit for wildly different functions?\n- Beside the technical abilities what are the personality treats that makes you want to hire someone\n- Is hiring automate-able? Using something like Netflix recommendation engine to recommend engineers for teams (given that there is relevant and enough data to get such system working)\n- When hiring for different levels, what are the technical and personal treats you would look for?\n- Many Egyptian artists are very excited that Netflix is in the production business in Egypt, for people in creative industry how can they get Netflix attention to showcase their work\n- How do you see someone moving from one company to another in less than a year?\n- What is the difference between hiring engineers and hiring non-engineers?\n- how important social profile when hiring (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc)\n- Hiring and Metaverse, do you think hiring and work can happen in this way?\n- is Unlimited vacation is a good concept? Does people abuse it?\n- What do you think about self learnt software engineers? Does their career similar to CS Graduate?"}