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Hiring Religion
That is what it takes if you are serious about finding the absolutely best people and getting them on your team. If you are hiring truly great people, they are usually a lot of fun to be around, so this sort of recruiting is quite enjoyable too.
John Spence • Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action
We borrowed our hiring process from Google. Every single person that comes through the door goes through a standardized interview with at least eight people who interview them, often in pairs. There are standardized scorecards, standardized questions, all managed by an applicant-tracking system. The hiring manager has to defend each candidate like
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Refactoring the Mirrortocracy
carlos.bueno.org"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
The more I’ve done it, the more I realize that what most people think of as the hard parts of hiring—asking just the right question that catches the candidate off guard, defining the role correctly, assessing the person’s skills—are less important than a more basic task: how do you see someone, including yourself, clearly?