There's so much content on building teams and hiring strategies, it can be difficult to separate the truly insightful signal from the noise. Especially as you work
#1 – Cult Creation – One of the most interesting posts on hiring and building great teams. From Steve Newcombe (who built Powerset).
#2 – How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with – A classic Marc Andreessen post on team building.
#3 – HOWTO: Recruit Rock Stars – Great article from Joe Stump of SimpleGeo.
#4 – How to Find and Hire Amazing People – An excellent four part series from Adam Smith of Xobni.
#5 – The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) – Classic article from Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software, the guy who coined “Smart and Gets Things Done“.
#6 – – Startup Hiring: Why You Should Date Before Getting Married Sage advice from Dharmesh Shah.
#7 – What are the best methods for recruiting software engineers today? – Uber-helpful Quora post from Quora’s own Charlie Cheever. Here’s another Quora thread worth reading if you’re very early stage: What are the best ways to recruit top engineering talent to work on a pre-Series A startup with no funding but big ideas?
#8 – Hiring the First 5 Engineers: What Sort of People Do You Want on Your Team? – Elad Gil of Mixer Labs and now Twitter has written some great stuff on hiring. Here’s another good post from him on Ninja Hiring Techniques for Early Stage Startups: How to Get Your First 3 Employees.
#9 – Never Read Another Resume – Some good advice from 37 Signals founder Jason Fried.
#10 – Hiring Religion – Classic article from Paul English.
#11 – Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees – Suster is probably the most prolific writer in the startup world these days. Here’s another good article that although a bit more sales-focused is good as well: How to Improve Hiring at Startups.
#12 – What developers think when you say “Rock Star” – Love this one!
#13 – Will the real programmers please stand up? – Article on tech interviewing from the RethinkDB guys. Here’s another great one from the same folks: Building a world-class team: six mistakes I made early in my career.
#14 – In the war for talent, love is a weapon – This one had me at the title…
#15 – Hiring Employee #1
#16 – Hiring is Obsolete – Paul Graham is easily one of my favorite writers. As usual, he has some fantastic insights in this post.
#17 – Engineering Management – Hiring – Some really good advice from Yishan Wong who helped build the team at Facebook.
#18 – Hazards of Hiring – This might be one of the most under-rated articles ever written about hiring. Very dense information in this one from Eric Sink.
Note: these links originally appeared on Jon Bischke's post, 21 Must-Read Articles on Building World Class Teams.
Did Jon miss any? Which were your favorites? See ya in the comments!