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Hiring Religion
Eventually we learned from our mistakes and failures that we could improve our hiring results in two ways: 1) by always being crisp and clear on exactly what kind of person we were looking for, and 2) by developing our vocabulary for and means of evaluating people’s abilities at a much more granular level.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
we put everyone through a very consistent process, so very personal as we help folks figure out why they might want to be here. But then we have a consistent way of evaluating talent. And I think that's important because it means that you can, as an interviewer, as a hiring manager, you can actually really start to understand what is the broad spec... See more
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
"Well, I would have liked to have hired more top-notch folks throughout the company earlier." Because I'm still in that position now—I'm still struggling to fill positions with the types of people that we want to hire. It's not something that we do very efficiently here. It takes us a long time to fill a req. When we do fill a req, we hav
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
I’ve recently liked asking these questions in interviews:-If you were me, what kind of candidate would you be looking for?-If you joined and this didn’t work out in 3 months, why do you think that would be?-What was your last boss like? How would they describe you?