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Fast-paced hiring: how to scale a team efficiently and without exhaustion

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September 22, 2020

Hiring engineers is difficult and takes time.

So what happens when your company decides to accelerate its growth, and you are tasked to more than double your team in one year, and hire in different countries?

In this article, I will share some tips and a few anecdotes from my experience scaling the backend team at Dashlane across two offices (Paris and Lisbon), which enabled us to meet ambitious hiring targets without compromising on the requirements of the interviews.

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Setting clear objectives

Like driving a technical project, it is useful to have clear objectives and a strategy for achieving them.

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