E61 - How To Get a Job at Harvey, Katie Burke, COO, Harvey

Lawyers have been reaching out to me about breaking into legal tech for years. Now engineers at some of the biggest tech companies in the world are looking at Harvey too, and I think that's the clearest signal yet that professional services became a hot space to be in, and that just wasn't true a few years ago. Katie Burke spent nearly twelve years at HubSpot before betting on Winston, Gabe and Harvey. She explains why Harvey doesn't want lawyers running from Big Law, what makes someone stand out in an interview, and why top engineers suddenly want to work in legal. And yes, someone still tweets that Harvey is going to zero every six months.

In this episode:

0:00 Zach’s Hot Disruptive Legal Take
4:22 Why Katie Burke Left HubSpot for Harvey
8:48 Betting on Winston and Gabe in Their 20s
11:39 The “Harvey Is Going to Zero” Tweet Cycle
12:54 Is There Actually a Moat in Legal AI?
15:23 Is Harvey Only for Big Law Juniors?
18:01 Can Harvey Compete With the Frontier Models?
20:55 Harvey’s Killer Feature May Be Its SLAs
22:37 Why Top Engineers Suddenly Want to Work in Legal
25:40 How Many Harvey Employees Are Lawyers?
27:34 Who Works Harder: Big Law or Harvey?
30:18 Does Working at Harvey Burn People Out?
32:30 The #1 Way to Stand Out in a Harvey Interview
36:18 Where Harvey Is Hiring Right Now
38:00 The HubSpot Playbook at Harvey
39:50 Should You Even Make a Three-Year Plan?
41:18 Dharmesh Shaw Called It in 2023
42:30 You Don’t Need to Write Code to Use AI
45:08 Where to Find Open Roles at Harvey

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