{"id":66238,"date":"2025-10-02T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/skip-interviews-and-let-candidates-compete-telegram-ceo-on-hiring-engineers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:37:11","slug":"skip-interviews-and-let-candidates-compete-telegram-ceo-on-hiring-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/skip-interviews-and-let-candidates-compete-telegram-ceo-on-hiring-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip interviews and let candidates compete: Telegram CEO on hiring engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has revealed his unique hiring strategy, ditching traditional interviews for competitive coding contests. He asserts this method superiorly identifies top engineering talent for his elite 30-person team, eliminating HR and ensuring product familiarity. This approach, which has offered lucrative salaries like $1 million, also crowdsources innovative solutions, a practice Durov has employed since 2007.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has revealed his unique hiring strategy, ditching traditional interviews for competitive coding contests. He asserts this method superiorly identifies top engineering talent for his elite 30-person team, eliminating HR and ensuring product familiarity. This approach, which has offered lucrative salaries like $1 million, also crowdsources innovative solutions, a practice Durov has&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/skip-interviews-and-let-candidates-compete-telegram-ceo-on-hiring-engineers\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skip interviews and let candidates compete: Telegram CEO on hiring engineers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}