when a new job is created or an existing job becomes available, an internal recruitment process takes place: candidates are interviewed by the colleagues who will work most closely with them.

Finding the right match is vitally important when selecting team members. That’s why I involve my entire team when looking for a new team member. You see, team members are the ones who have to live and work with the new team member, not I.

Across industries, there were three dominant templates: professional, star, and commitment. The professional blueprint emphasized hiring candidates with specific skills: Founders looked for engineers who could code in JavaScript or C++, or scientists who had deep knowledge about synthesizing proteins. In the star blueprint, the focus shifted from c

I was the third consultant they hired, and the first not to address it as a “people issue.” What I saw was a legacy code issue. Their software was brittle and hard to work with.