[xondono]

These seem to work, but I don’t have anything close to the number needed for statistical significance:

- At least 2 years experience. - Having built projects on your own is always good, but I’ve seen that having built “weird” stuff is better.

There’s a lot of typical projects, in hardware development building a power supply or a 3D printer are quite common. I find that uncommon projects (even if unsuccessful) tend to be a better predictor of what I’m looking for.

- Uncommon educational paths: having changed majors, or pursued other stuff later (e.g. people that do physics in college but after 2 years working they switch to coding and join a masters in ML)

In the end you are trying to find people that are independent, emotionally stable, a little non conformist, but ideally don’t have serious communication problems. That is said easier than done though..