About the Speaker

Sagnik Nandy is the Chief Development Officer at Okta overseeing engineering, product, design and operations for Okta Workforce Identity Cloud. Previously, he spent nearly 16 years at Google where he was a VP of Engineering and built and managed products like Google's publisher ads platforms, Google Analytics, and some of the company's most business-critical systems, like ads targeting, bidding, and infrastructure.

About the Session

Sagnik has been deeply involved in hiring for years with thousands of candidates getting hired in his teams. In this session he will share several experiences and techniques that helped create a more efficient and effective hiring process and allowed his teams to land the right candidates faster. He'll challenge the standard approach to recruiting that most companies practice today, he'll share key changes his teams made to improve candidate quality and close rates, and he'll advise on the metrics that companies should be using to evaluate the success of their hiring process. Plus, there will be plenty of time for Q&A after.

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