We’re making our hiring rubric public.
This series of articles contains the same hiring expectations that our interviewers use to assess candidates. These hiring expectations serve as a description of Blueberry’s ideal engineer.
Why
We are hiring. More on that in a moment.
Much of our hiring process has been inspired by Oxide’s RFD#3. Oxide learned that transparency benefits everyone in the hiring process. Candidates learn if they’re the right fit for a company. Interviewers are calibrated to look for engineers who share common values. The hiring manager gets to work with a pool of applicants who, generally, have self-selected as culturally/technically aligned.
Job descriptions are often full of well-meaning platitudes that don’t say much. Instead, we’re sharing the real hiring rubric our team uses. We hope this gives you a clearer, more honest view of what we value — and whether we’re the kind of team you’d like to join.
If you find you have overlapping cultural and technical values, we encourage you to apply.