Hiring Advice

If you're the CEO of a fast-growing startup, the mistake you'll make in the next year that you'll regret most will probably be a hiring mistake. Possibly hiring someone established, which you'll feel you should do now you're getting big, and which VCs will strongly encourage.

Paul Graham twitter.com

Johanna

slope_vs_starting.md

Professor John Ousterhout gist.github.com

Keely Adler

Determine if they have a chip on their shoulder . Do they have something to prove? Where’s the hole they’re looking to fill? Ideally, you’d get someone with obvious talent/drive that is misunderstood by the world. Those types of people will run through walls to reconcile their internal view of themselves with external perception.

What you’re

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

Brandy Cerne

How to interview product managers

Lenny Rachitsky lennysnewsletter.com

sari

People who don’t take themselves too seriously. They have to be able to laugh at themselves to succeed.

What to look for: This is usually very easy to assess, but look for someone unpretentious and a pleasure to be around.

What to ask: You know it when you see it.

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

Brandy Cerne

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

Interview Questions

yatir.notion.site

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