<aside> 💡 Notion Tip: Shopify's VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar uses this hiring framework to single out leaders who know how to build highly effective engineering organizations. Use this template to find your next VP of Engineering.

Learn more about the framework here.

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⚙️ Process

<aside> 📌 This section is all about assessing a candidate's optimization skills. A great engineering leader has opinions on a favored development process. This need goes beyond just fine-tuning the development process, however. They also need tools for winning and keeping engineers’ trust.

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Experiments with the development process

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↓ Interview questions

• Describe the development process at your last company. What would you try again and why? What would you not try again and why not?
• What have you changed your mind about when it comes to the development process or engineering team practices?

<aside> 🥇 Good qualities

Has shipped code with different development processes.

Has examples of things that have failed but they’ll try again.

Has strong opinions but is willing to change their mind.

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<aside> 🚨 Red flags

Strong opinions, strongly held. Not reflective on their experience. If things didn’t work before, they would do the same thing again.

Has delivered software only using one development process.

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Reduces admin burden

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↓ Interview questions

• Describe a lousy system at your last company. What did you do about it?
• On larger teams, how do you get a sense of what’s working and not working?