Hiring Advice

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Decisiveness is Just as Important as Deliberation

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

Mo Shafieeha

Why and how we do work trials at Linear

Zoe Wellner linear.app

andrea

Hiring Religion

paulenglish.com

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@mckaywrigley I have a bunch of questions I ask. What would you build for yourself? What did previous companies you've worked for need? What are you an expert in? What have you noticed recently that seemed broken? If you were going to build something just for fun, what would it be?

Paul Graham x.com

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The job description Bezos wrote for his very first employee said, “You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.

Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

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Find out their wins above replacement. Through the stories they tell, look to see if the end result of the thing they did would have been significantly worse without their involvement. Try to separate their actions from those of their team or the circumstance. This quality should both highlight their talents and their sense of agency and

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

Brandy Cerne

Bonni - Empathy-Driven Team Building

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How to hire

Sam Altman blog.samaltman.com

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High EQ + Persuasion. People who have a clear-headed view of a situation, and the soft skills/influence chops to bend the environment to their will, are especially valuable. It’s an underrated skill.
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Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

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