Essam Cafe: Hiring in Silicon Valley with Mike Jones

Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTfSOY9bMsI Some of the questions that we went through: - 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? - Beside the technical abilities what are the personality treats that makes you want to hire someone - 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) - When hiring for different levels, what are the technical and personal treats you would look for? - 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 - How do you see someone moving from one company to another in less than a year? - What is the difference between hiring engineers and hiring non-engineers? - how important social profile when hiring (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc) - Hiring and Metaverse, do you think hiring and work can happen in this way? - is Unlimited vacation is a good concept? Does people abuse it? - What do you think about self learnt software engineers? Does their career similar to CS Graduate?