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Coinbase scaled from hiring dozens to 150 engineers per month by centralizing and standardizing their entire hiring process. They moved from team-driven hiring to a centralized assembly-line approach with standardized roles, nationwide remote sourcing, centralized interview panels, non-negotiable offers, team matching post-offer, and cohort-based onboarding classes of 100-150 engineers. The process was modeled like a sales funnel with weekly metrics reviews to identify and eliminate bottlenecks. Success required treating hiring as an engineering problem with data-driven optimization, strong cultural self-selection, and continuous process iteration every 6 months as scale increased.

How Coinbase Scaled Their Hiring to 150 Engineers Per Month

All about Engineering Management, Leadership and Career Growth.