Getting the right team is one of, if not THE key to startup success.
Yet you consider it not worth a senior engineer's time to evaluate the candidates for the next hire, and the presumably with whom they will need to work - productively?
Check your org's runway and be sure to have your resume ready when it gets close to the end. I wouldn't expect take-off.
Sorry I assumed that the word 'screen' was universal. This is the first step, it is a waste of a senior engineers time with a candidate that is not even close to ready for the job.
Yes, I suppose 'screen' is a bit ambiguous. Doesn't seem like a pool of a dozen is the first step. I'd want the Sr Devs involved at least out past the final half-dozen if not dozen -- not for 4 hours each, but at least a chat about what they've done, problem-solving approaches, etc.
Getting the right team is one of, if not THE key to startup success.
Yet you consider it not worth a senior engineer's time to evaluate the candidates for the next hire, and the presumably with whom they will need to work - productively?
Check your org's runway and be sure to have your resume ready when it gets close to the end. I wouldn't expect take-off.