Why Work Here: Kartik Hegde, ChipStack

Check out Chipstack here: https://wellfound.com/company/chipstack Our guest today is Kartik Hegde, Co-Founder and CEO of ChipStack. ChipStack enables organizations to create the most advanced chips faster and more efficiently than ever before. Their product is a medley of Large Language Models and novel methodology built on a modern software stack. Leveraging ChipStack results in high-design productivity, lowered RTL bugs, and faster time to market. Key Insights: For Job Seekers - When interviewing at startups, demonstrate resilience and deep technical knowledge by preparing to discuss complex projects you've worked on from scratch, showing how you approached difficult problems and persisted through challenges. For Recruiters - When hiring for highly specialized interdisciplinary roles, focus on candidates who show genuine passion for the problem space, as evidenced by Chipstack's success in attracting talent by emphasizing the opportunity to leverage existing expertise while learning new skills in an impactful domain. For Founders - Create a clear vision with measurable milestones that solve a specific industry bottleneck first, as Chipstack focused on verification as their initial target before tackling their ambitious long-term goal of enabling chips to be built in less than a month with fewer than 10 people. Why Work Here is a series in which Amit Matani, CEO of Wellfound, has honest, behind-the-scenes conversations with founders, executives, and employees about why their companies are worth joining.