Hiring Advice

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Building Trust and Assessing Integrity as You Interview | Andreessen Horowitz

A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…

Laura Wendel x.com

andrea

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

Matt Mochary amazon.com

sari

The Associate Product Manager Playbook

Will Lawrence productlife.to

Tom So

Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen

andrewchen.com

Jordan Bester

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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Why and how we do work trials at Linear

Zoe Wellner linear.app

andrea

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