Derrick Reimer

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327 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 15 Sep

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Startups For the Rest of Us · Episode 850 | How Not to Screw Up When Hiring Your first Developer and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer) · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

They're almost hung up on that.

So like I think this is something that maybe would come out even more if you were to do like a test project with someone, which I highly recommend during a during a hiring process.

To like, okay, let's work on something together for an afternoon or a few hours.

And let's see how you react to encountering something that is maybe not done the way you would have done it.

But like this is the norm established in the code base.

And

Are you willing to?

go along with those norms and maybe, you know, recommend shifting pragmatically in a new direction if there's something that is truly better, but like also recognizing like we can't stop the world and rewrite the code base or

it doesn't make sense to fight against the conventions that we've established in such a way where like now it's super confusing anyone coming to the code base is not able to to know how to how to operate.

So yeah, that's a tricky one.

But for sure what you don't want to find yourself in the place of is like arguing small small things all the time because opinions are too strong, you know?

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

I similar criteria where I'm just kind of not willing to entertain if someone exclusively has big company experience, like you said, because yeah, I think dev teams just operate so differently.

I mean, even watching Drip grow to a team of what was it, twenty, twenty plus when we left?

Yep.

And so even watching how work gets organized, how things uh, you know, the pace that people work at, it just it morphs into a different thing.

And that's not necessarily a bad experience to have, but exclusively having that can be a a culture shock.

And I think some people have a harder time adapting to that.

And it can be a lot to reorient someone towards the small smaller company mindset.

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