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Ep. 99 - Creating Lifehacker - Part II (Gina Trapani)

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Last episode we talked to Gina Trapani about her Lifehacker days. In this episode, we look to the future and hear about her work at Postlight, what it’s like to work with Paul Ford, and what she looks for when she’s hiring an engineer.

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0:43.7

I'm your host, Aran, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.

0:48.8

Today on the show, I'm so excited to continue our conversation with Director of engineering at Postlight and a founding

0:54.2

editor of LifeHacker. Yes, the Lifehacker. Do you know Japan? So now that we know that you're

1:00.6

hiring, what kinds of things do you look for in an engineer at Postlight? You know, I have been,

1:06.4

I've been figuring this out. So I'm just Postalive for two months and I've just started kind of

1:10.3

getting involved in the hiring process. And I've been really kind of focusing on trying to make our

1:16.0

hiring process as humane kind of as possible. And I looked at our coding challenges and said,

1:23.2

okay, like is this, you know, is this worded well? Is this really a good indicator of people's

1:27.4

skills?

1:27.9

Or like, are we asking too much or too little of our candidates?

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