# Life at Hashnode #8: How We're Scaling Up Our Engineering Team

Hey fellas! 👋🏻

Join @[Sandeep Panda](@sandeep) and me as we discuss different aspects of scaling a high-performance engineering team—along with some new updates about Hashnode! 🤩

Learn more about: 

- The vision behind Hashnode and our engineering team
- What Sandeep looks for when interviewing engineers
- Reasons why some candidates don't make the cut (and also, how to avoid such mistakes)
- What we look for after onboarding a new engineer
- How Sandeep ensures that people are getting the right mentorship
- How the engineering team is structured right now—and how that may change as we grow
- Why engineers are excited to join the Hashnode team

%[https://youtu.be/iCamZw_jMl4]

Thank you so much for watching the video. 😁

By the way—there are two more super amazing people who joined the Hashnode team recently:

@[Gaurang](@gsdev) 🎉
![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1630927681227/mQLNC0-uJ.png)
and @[Rob Wapano](@robwapano) 🎊
![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1630927699979/XpMrC9v9F.png)

You will hear much more about these two in upcoming editions of Life at Hashnode. 

Till then, stay tuned for more exciting Hashnode updates coming your way! 👋🏻