Hiring Advice

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Google is standardizing interview questions (finally?) so I am forced to retire my bootleg interview questions. In honor of the great service they've done over 200+ PM interviews, I'm going to do a thread that I expect no one to read but I have no other way to memorialize them.

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ssari

great interview questions for PMs!

Openness. You are not hiring a finished product, and therefore want to ensure the person is open to improvement and new ideas.

What to look for:
1. Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance.
2. Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

Determine if they have a chip on their shoulder . Do they have something to prove? Where’s the hole they’re looking to fill? Ideally, you’d get someone with obvious talent/drive that is misunderstood by the world. Those types of people will run through walls to reconcile their internal view of themselves with external perception.

What you’re

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent

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sari

The Three-Hour Brand Sprint

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Jordan Bester

Theory for excellence. "Excellence" is a surprisingly generalizable skill. People who've been great at *anything* are more likely to have the drive and self-discipline to excel even at something unrelated. In 2015, we hired a number of ex-Juilliard musicians with no engineering experience with the assumption that “people who know how to be

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

Exec Development is a Different Game

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

Mo Shafieeha

Building Trust and Assessing Integrity as You Interview | Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)future.com

Steph Alinsug