[davismwfl]

Generally referrals from existing engineers is the most common.

Outside of that I have seen a couple of stealth startups create a separate corporation and use it to recruit people. In some cases there are some advantages to having a separate corp to employ people and have its sole client be the stealth startup.

EDIT: Fixed some grammar.

[merterdir]

This is a pretty good idea actually, thanks a lot for taking the time to help me out!

[davismwfl]

your welcome, good luck.