First Round (First Round Review) · 2015-03-24
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Coursera's Competitive Hiring Strategy: John Ciancutti's Four-Phase Recruiting Framework
John Ciancutti, Chief Product Officer at Coursera, shares his recruiting playbook developed at Netflix and Facebook for competing against tech giants for engineering talent. The strategy emphasizes relationship-building, personal outreach from hiring managers, and understanding candidate motivations across four phases: sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing.
Metrics in this report
Engineering Team Growth
25 to 80engineers
increase over
Coursera engineering team in less than 2 years