Canada
Harbor Metrics
Senior data engineer placed in Toronto
The search
What changed
They sent people who had already run the warehouse we were trying to grow, which saved us a quarter of interviews.
Harbor Metrics was hiring a senior data engineer into a warehouse that finance already depended on. The team had rejected two earlier searches because the candidates knew the tools on a slide and had never operated them on a weekday.
The brief named dbt, the warehouse, and the reporting consumers. We interviewed for production stories and sent a shortlist of three, with salary and notice on the same page.
Harbor hired from that shortlist in twelve days. The new engineer took the finance models in the first month, and the head of data kept the same brief shape for the next seat.