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LAURA PRUITT, ENGINEERING MANAGERSYDNEY BUSCH, RECRUITER

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experience

Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility

Define a successful hire.

● Min. 5 years experience● Building data pipelines - at scale● Hadoop● Scala/Spark● Autonomous thought leader● Comfortable with ambiguity● Ability to push back and influence business

partners

We needed to recruit differently.

Our partnership had to look different.

Service

Partnership

Throw away traditional SLA’s

“Service” shouldn’t be the focus

Give feedback

And lots of it, coming from all

directions

Aspects of our Partnership

Always be transparent

With each other & with candidates

Don’t stop experimenting

A stale recruiting process is your

enemy

Making it happen.

1. Build strategies. Don’t stop at one.

Sourcing Strategy● Tools: Linkedin, Crunchbase, Github, Stackoverflow, Twitter, Blog posts, Meetups, Internal

Events, etc.● Divide and conquer - how do we optimize our strengths?

Referral Strategy● Don’t wait for referrals to come to you, seek them out● Socialize and expand your network (internally and externally)

Networking Strategy● Build for the short- and the long-term● Get specific

2. Use the data to guide, not dictate.

Metrics Success● Response rate● Conversion through each stage - is there a reason candidates aren’t working

out?● Pipeline Speed & Volume

3. Branding will pay off in the long run.

Takeaways● Partnership is key - focus on small changes

● Get creative on your strategies, don’t limit it to one

● Let momentum be your friend (short and long term

strategies)

Thank you.