Sternberg: Honor hires small, highly selective engineering teams of 10x talent
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Seth Sternberg, founder and CEO of Honor, details his team-building strategy carried over from his previous startup Meibo.
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“We are building the tech teams in really similar ways, so there are a few different philosophies on how to build a tech team, but what we do is extraordinarily selective, but low numbers of engineers, so it's really hard to find engineers that we want to work at Honor, because our bar is frankly just so high, but when we find someone, they're amazing, and they're kind of like, you kind of hear this mythical And we really do have the 10 X productive engineers, so it's really painful in the process of finding those people, because we have to say no to a lot of people, but once a team like that, it's pretty amazing, and that's something that we carried between the two companies.”
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