The first indicator that this might be great advice is the near-unanimous disagreement in the replies. In hiring, you can either become among the best in the world at identifying mispriced assets - or you can pay market rates. And nearly everyone thinks they’re a great picker.https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1170012873512239104 …
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I don't mind, but it'll take time and effort. I'll see if it bubbles up to the top of the priority list! In a nutshell, though, /1/ I aspire to do things that no other company has already done, and /2/, even if I didn't, I don't think you can get a strong signal.
I think it depends on how you define “done it before” - e.g. if you are a startup building a product for large scale, it could be something as broad as looking only for engineers with experience building distributed systems.
