Michael Hess
Founder · Outset · 15.8K followers · LinkedIn benchmark, last 12 months (original)
Outset company report →Report card vs prior 12 months
Avg eng/post
109
+91%Median eng/post
83.5
+114%Posts/wk
2.3
-18%Total eng.
13.2K
+59%Trend (monthly — bars are posts, line is avg engagement per post)
Top categories
- Celebratory Announcement — smart avg 130.8 across 8 posts (1.6× typical)
- Hiring / Recruiting — smart avg 117.5 across 68 posts (1.4× typical)
- Personal Story — smart avg 94.5 across 12 posts (1.1× typical)
- Event — smart avg 93.9 across 9 posts (1.1× typical)
- Product Update — smart avg 86.6 across 11 posts (1× typical)
Top posts
- 2025-08-04 · Hiring / Recruiting645 eng. (392 likes · 216 comments · 37 shares)
We want to give you $10,000. We're hiring software engineers: frontend and backend. We just raised our Series A and are building AI-moderate…
View post → - 2025-12-10 · Celebratory Announcement568 eng. (451 likes · 94 comments · 23 shares)
Just six months after our Series A...I couldn’t be more excited to announce that Outset has raised $30M in Series B financing! 2025 has been…
View post → - 2026-01-28 · Hiring / Recruiting392 eng. (296 likes · 82 comments · 14 shares)
We’re hiring Backend and Frontend Software Engineers. Earlier this week, I shared that we’re opening up a VP of Engineering role. We haven’t…
View post → - 2026-02-06 · Celebratory Announcement340 eng. (217 likes · 114 comments · 9 shares)
We just raised Series B, and we're hiring 10+ engineers. Our investors said to "focus and be deliberate." We're doing both by hiring more. S…
View post → - 2026-03-02 · Hiring / Recruiting285 eng. (197 likes · 84 comments · 4 shares)
Every company I know is cutting its engineering team because of AI. We're hiring 10+ Engineers in March. A colleague called me last week, bu…
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