This chapter introduces hiring processes, interviews, and job offers—it aims to demystify the intimidating but mostly predictable journey from the wilderness to a job building software.
Many large tech companies’ hiring systems are approximately the same. End to end, the process can take anywhere from < 1 week (for small startups where every stakeholder can get in a room on 5 minutes’ notice) to multiple months (Google is famous in Silicon Valley for processes of 4–8 weeks with many stages of committee review). This section will outline the process, with subsequent sections treating each area in ...
