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Hire people who give a shit.
The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit. For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at big companies is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at big companies.... See more
Alexandr Wang • Hire people who give a shit.
this is reading to me like perpetuation of overworking and a lack of work-life balance to be honest. i agree with 'hire people who give a shit’ but at some point ‘giving a shit’ is becoming ‘willing to devote their entire lives to the company’ which imo is insane. you can absolutely work for five hours a day on something and give a shit about it. five hours a day is actually a hell of a lot of time.
While it is not guaranteed that someone who gives shit will do great work, it is guaranteed that they will not do good work if they do not give a shit.
Alexandr Wang • Hire people who give a shit.
One of the worst trends in Silicon Valley is conflating the company’s culture with the company’s cosmetics. The flexible work hours, open desk layout, office designs, lack of office attires, and perks often paint the picture of the culture of the company. But that’s absolutely silly—no perk tells me anything meaningful about the company, other than... See more
Alexandr Wang • Hire people who give a shit.
I have a particular line of questioning around this:-What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something?-How many hours were you working a week?-Why did you work so hard? Why did you care?-When were you the most unmotivated in your life?-What’s the thing you’re the most proud of?-Do you think it was worth it?
Alexandr Wang • Hire people who give a shit.
Over time interviewing, I’ve found that I mainly screen for one key thing: giving a shit. To be more specific, there’s actually two things to screen for:-they give a shit about Scale, and-they give a shit about their work in general.