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How To Interview Senior Engineers Properly

A founder's playbook for filtering senior engineers at the seed stage. Skip LeetCode. Focus on leverage and judgment. This is the interview process we use at BeGlobal.

BeGlobal Team·January 8, 2026·4 min read

Standard interviews are broken. They are designed for scale, not for signal. At the seed stage, you need a different playbook. This guide shows you how to filter for leverage and judgment, the two qualities that define a truly senior engineer.

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Stop interviewing for syntax. Start interviewing for leverage. Your runway depends on it.

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