Hiring Designers

Julie Zhuo, VP Product Design, Facebook

Julie covers the end-to-end process for hiring designers: 1. Finding quality candidates 2. Interviewing designers

Paul Adams, VP of Product, Intercom

Micheal Lopez, Head of Design, Segment

Michael shares what the Segment design team looks for in design candidates (passion, knowledge-sharing, and empathy), and where they've seen applicants fall short in each category.

Daniel Burka, Director of Product and Design, Vital Strategies

Chad Thornton, Head of Design, Airtable

Kurt Varner, Design Director, Dropbox

Kurt did an AMA on Twitter on how designers get hired at Dropbox and organized dozens of questions into this article.

Braden Kowitz, Design Partner, GV

Braden provides guidance on how to design a design exercise to mitigate bias, a sample exercise to use, and guidance on how to evaluate results from design applicants.