Ask HN: Tips for a new team lead who is hiring
by noam_k on Hacker News.
Hi all, I’m moving into a Team Lead position after ~9 years of technical work (mostly R&D). The team deals with cryptography for a hardware startup, so we have a very diverse set of subjects we need to understand (abstract math, a few open source libraries we are integrating with, hardware requirements, to name a few).
At the moment there’s only one team member I’ll be in charge of, so I’ll be focused on hiring. My main question is what should I put emphasis on in the recruitment process? Is hiring a junior a valid risk? Are there gotchas I should be aware of?