How do you recruit entrepreneurial teams?

Strangely, the first thing you have to do is to find out what kind of team you need, especially what are the most basic skills for project success. Then it is difficult to find a boy or girl who can do this. It takes some time, because finding the right person is a numbers game. I personally suggest finding someone else's position in the tight labor market. In order to let you know the most successful team I have built, this is 3 months, nearly 3,000 resumes and about 400 interviews. After calculation, you will find that I didn't do much else, but I finally found him. This is a full-time job and you can't outsource it. You find the first person right away. This person's personality determines the appearance of team member 2, but they don't obey the requirements of the project/team you decided before.

At any time, you may think that you will get lost, that is, a team of ordinary people will do extraordinary things. In the above example, we delivered the first MVP within three months from the first employment, and the system grew to 6.5438+0.5 million lines of C ++ and about 6.5438+0.5 million TB-level DB classes, which are still the main export after 20 years of operation.

Now you may imagine that today's startups are different and need different methods. My experience tells me that "star team" just won't work, because startups don't have room for themselves. What happens is to spend more time arguing with others instead of delivering work products, not to mention wasting your time as a referee. Alternatives such as "anyone else's team" are basically just recruiting the first guy you find, so it involves rewriting. Unless you are very lucky, they may not get it, thus generating suboptimal code that doesn't hurt people. You have been in trouble until you start to expand your scale and your life is in trouble.

Another thing to remember is that software development is not a "once and for all" process. You have to manage it day after day, hour after hour, but if you choose the right team, they will over-communicate, so what you have to do is the top priority. In the middle, you should catch almost all FUBAR.