How to hire your first engineer as a non-technical founder

Scope the role, gather proof-of-work signal, and evaluate engineers when you cannot read every line of code yourself.

By Jagan Yetukuri. This essay is part of the Raizen Blog on proof-of-work hiring and AI-era technical evaluation.

Related reading: Proof-of-work hiring, explained, How Raizen works, and the verified developer leaderboard. Companies can review ranked candidates on Raizen for Companies; developers can build proof on Join Raizen.

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