Hiring Advice

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.

Chris Perry twitter.com

ssari

great interview questions for PMs!

Roblox Blog - All the latest news direct from Roblox employees.

Barbara Messing blog.roblox.com

Mo Shafieeha

Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started...

open.spotify.com

Gaia Soykok

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

sari

Navigate the world on their own terms. The best high potential youth are often unconventional in some ways. And if you’re looking for someone unconventional and high potential, they’ll often have a rationale for their unconventional approach. Ideally they can describe their weird path in an internally coherent way without being egotistical or

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

Brandy Cerne

Find Your People

joincolossus.com

sari

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

modernwisdom.libsyn.com

sari

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.
1. What to look for:

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

Brandy Cerne

Why not hire part-time developers?

Alex Klos aklos.substack.com

Johanna