Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
- What to look for:
- Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance.
- Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move
Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People
- 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.
@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?
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