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The 5 questions to ask before you hire a forward deployed engineer

Forward deployed engineer is one of the fastest-growing job titles in tech, and almost everything written about it is for engineers who want the job. This is for the business owner on the other side of the table: five plain questions that tell you, in one conversation, whether you're getting someone who will figure out what's worth building, build it and hand it over properly. Ask them of whoever you talk to, us included.

• The 5 questions. And what a good answer sounds like.
• Do you even need one? When to just buy a tool, and the four signs you do need one.
• What you should get when they leave. The runbook, the documents and the training.