Carlos Lezama

Head of Talent @getserval and Fútbol aficionado ⚽️

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

Super fun hanging out with @hellosprice and the @AudaciousHQ team talking all things talent!

[Samantha Price @hellosprice]

@calezama_ thank you for stopping by @AudaciousHQ and sharing all your insights on how you're going to scale @getserval into the next generational co! We'll gladly have you back any time!

Major take aways:

- Referrals are everything! Serval asks every new hire who else they should talk to on day one. $20K referral bonus is the minimum and even more for harder to fill roles. AND:

- Two-way referral bonus for referrer and the referee.

- They have a dedicated engineer that supports recruiting through in person meetings, community events, happy hours, and poker nights. And once a month, they rent out Fjord in Sausalito and invite 8–12 high-quality people to come sauna!

- Serval gives a monthly discretionary budget for employees to try new and creative recruiting ideas.

- AI acumen and fluency isn't just a core skill for engineers, every candidate has to pass a coding challenge. Their bar is that everyone has to be meaningfully AI-fluent to work there.

- Roughly 50%+ of their hires come from referrals.

Above all else, @calezama_ has so many interesting AI experiments running through the function. You can tell that he wants to hire the best and will keep the bar high on talent! He's a true partner to the business!

Come back soon, Carlos!

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

We’ve been busy, but getting started!

[Serval @getserval]

SIXTEEN NEW SERVALS STARTED THIS WEEK 🐯

The largest single-day class in Serval’s history, joining across engineering, sales, marketing, product, and design. Welcome to the pride!

We’re still hiring → https://t.co/sgcJX1L39i

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@hellosprice So good

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

Stutter penalty doesn’t work. Why do players keep trying it?

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

We have fun

[Serval @getserval]

BRB ⚽️

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

📈

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@hellosprice We’ve been building a special talent system @getserval
Everything from Fjord events, an internal sourcing networking tool, admin workflow automations etc etc.

[Jake Stauch @jakeserval]

Spent an hour with @gradypb on @sequoia's Training Data. 5 things we got into:

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@jakeserval @clay @vercel @togethercompute @getserval Only the beginning! Let’s go!

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

We’re seeing strong adoption from enterprise customers and an influx of talent from competitors. Talent follows a strong product. We’re hiring: https://t.co/t1u4TeWk6j

[Jake Stauch @jakeserval]

If you want to predict the future, watch the flow of top talent. Where are people going, and where are they leaving from?

Talent is the ultimate leading indicator of future performance.

It's Serval now.

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@tkkong Let’s grab coffee.

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

Tried Opus 4.6 for 1 task and this was the result smh

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@eglyman Epic

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@jsngr @tryramp Agreed! But I’d also add @getserval to that list

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

Excited to join @getserval to help build the talent function 0-1!

We’re hiring! Send me a message if you’re interested. Looking for Forward Deployed Engineers, Software Engineers and various roles across GTM!

SF HQ, 5 days a week, building IRL

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@eglyman Pennywise was there ?! 😭😂💀

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

@KlausCodes 🤞🏼

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

What a year 😤

https://t.co/OlLE9IFRM5

[Ramp @tryramp]

We have some news

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

Builders, this one is for you.

@8VC and @RampLabs are hosting an event in San Francisco on November 20. Ramp Labs is pushing the limits of AI at Ramp, from reinforcement learning with Tinker to agents that fill forms and manage spreadsheets.

Register: https://t.co/kPXuijleYQ