Having a distributed team allows us to hire globally, avoiding the high costs and competition for talent in San Francisco, which is beneficial for early-stage startups.

Hiring is a challenging problem in Silicon Valley, but we not only reached our ambitious hiring goal but also focused on bringing in people who could help us improve our definition of quality and fit culturally into the company.

The future of hiring will involve building engineering teams globally, not limited to specific geographic areas.

Our company is distributed across 30 countries because we search globally for the right person for the job, regardless of their location.

We can only hire the best talent in Silicon Valley, which is why Flexport was founded here.

We prioritize hiring super talented individuals who fit our culture and are incredibly hardworking, regardless of their experience.

In our engineering organization, 81% of our team was proactively sourced, demonstrating that you can connect with great candidates anywhere.

We have hired about 15 new employees since launching the relocation package, with only one coming from the Bay Area.

As we grew, I learned the importance of hiring, developing a standard algorithm to assess candidates against the average to ensure we brought in top talent. We focused on continuous improvement in our hiring process, asking if each candidate was better than the average, which helped us grow our team and improve our startup.