Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
- How would you describe the candidate to someone who doesn’t know them?
- What is the context in which you know the candidate?
- How many people have you worked with in a similar context? How would you compare the candidate to those other people?
- If this person’s name comes up in your inbox, DMs, or they’re calling you, what do you feel? What do you expect
Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring
reference checks are a great idea when hiring and this is a great set of questions.
The biggest difference in how I’m hiring the second time around:
Indexing heavily on people who really, really want to work at a high growth startup
If a candidate is deciding between us and a comfortable job at a big tech company, it’s already not a fit
Ankur Nagpaltwitter.com@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 Grahamx.com
Using the collaborate before you commit approach empowers both the candidate and the person hiring, because they both have the agency to decide whether the situation feels right to them. Was there chemistry? Was there magic? Was it more awkward than you might have liked?
Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring
Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People
