Mendoza

6 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2019 by Pat Poels · said 19 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jun 25, 2019 positive
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Removing himself from local interviews vastly accelerated Eventbrite's Mendoza hiring
“And when I figured that out, that's when I got out of his way and start letting him hire just without me in the process. And that accelerated our ability to hire and grow really, really fast.”
Pat Poels Jun 25, 2019 ▶ 21:04 Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
Jun 25, 2019 positive
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Eventbrite's Mendoza engineering office saw zero turnover for its first four years
“In this office where we've experienced this great growth of going from five people to a 110 on the engineering and design side, we didn't lose our first person until. A full four years after we started building the team.”
Pat Poels Jun 25, 2019 ▶ 14:31 Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
Jun 25, 2019 negative
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Rejecting international engineers for lacking English fluency was a colossal mistake
“Over the course of the first two years doing hiring in Mendoza, we let, we did not hire probably three, maybe even four great engineers purely because they didn't speak English very well. And this was a colossal mistake.”
Pat Poels Jun 25, 2019 ▶ 16:39 Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
Jun 25, 2019 positive
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Poels: Mendoza engineering salaries are roughly 30% of San Francisco levels
“First off, the salaries in Mendoza are roughly 30% what they are in San Francisco.”
Pat Poels Jun 25, 2019 ▶ 14:04 Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
Jun 25, 2019 positive
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Eventbrite achieved Google-level hiring advantages by empowering its regional hubs
“The reward for giving them that trust and autonomy has been, we are the place to work for engineers in both Mendoza and Nashville full stop. We are the best place to work and it's known by everybody that advantage that Google used to have over us. In San Franc…”
Pat Poels Jun 25, 2019 ▶ 27:46 Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
Jun 25, 2019 positive
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Annual engineering turnover in Eventbrite's Mendoza and Nashville hubs is under 5%
“If I look at Mendoza and Nashville together over the course of the time we've had these two offices, the total turnover we've had in these two offices combined has been less than five percent a year across these two.”
Pat Poels Jun 25, 2019 ▶ 14:18 Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
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