hiring hacks: an inside look into coinbase's recruiting approach
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An Inside Look Into Coinbase’s Recruiting Approach
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What is Hiring Hacks? • The hiring hacks series is presented by Greenhouse
• Greenhouse is an end-to-end recruiting optimization platform, helping companies get better at recruiting
Hiring Hacks Series• Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies and tools that helps measurably improve the
recruiting process and outcomes
• In this Hiring Hacks, Greenhouse partnered with HackerRank to discuss:
• The Recruiting Approach at Coinbase, including the work trial process
• Technical Recruiting Strategies, such as referral programs and tapping into your user base
• Unique Ways to Attract Talent, like developing the reputation and networks of your engineering leads
• Best Practices on Creating an Exceptional Candidate Experience
• Scaling Culture and hiring people who are genuinely passionate about your product
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Source passionate developerswith CodeSprints, an online programming
competition.
Screentechnical candidateswith engaging, auto-
scored CodeChallenges.
Interviewstandout programmers
with CodePair, which combines video chat with
live coding.
What’s the difference between a bad hire and a great hire?
HackerRank
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Enhance recruiting by ensuring engineering speaks to qualified
candidates
Strategic advantage by finding candidates that aren’t obvious
based on resume
Improve process and reduce your time to hire
Drive candidates to top of funnel from HackerRank community of
1M+ engineers (via CodeSprints / Company Pages)
Why HackerRank works
Hiring Hacks Speaker
Aurora HarshnerRecruiting Manager
Aurora started her career in Silicon Valley in HR at Salesforce.com, however she transitioned into recruiting as an Engineering sourcer at Google. She left in 2011 to join a small budding startup called Airbnb, where she built out various teams ranging from Customer Support, International Expansion, Engineering and Design. Once the company reached 900 employees, she left Airbnb to apply the learnings of rapidly scaling a company, to a small Bitcoin startup called Coinbase, where she currently works as a Recruiting Manager. Aurora is passionate about providing an exceptional candidate experience that blends efficiency with a truly human experience.
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Coinbase’s approach to recruiting.
- Education
- Candidate experience
- Partnerships
- The work trial
- Communication
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Technical recruiting strategies.
- Get the engineers involved
- Leverage libraries
- Driving referrals
- Leverage your users
- Referral bonus
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Attracting top talent.
- Engineer Leadership Presence
- Reddit HackerRank quiz
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Candidate experience.
- 5 minute sync
- Provide interview focus areas
- Timeliness
- Project leader and buddies
