Hiring Advice

Theory for excellence. "Excellence" is a surprisingly generalizable skill. People who've been great at *anything* are more likely to have the drive and self-discipline to excel even at something unrelated. In 2015, we hired a number of ex-Juilliard musicians with no engineering experience with the assumption that “people who know how to be

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

Brandy Cerne

Frameworks for Hiring

Erik Torenberg eriktorenberg.substack.com

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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 Nagpal twitter.com

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Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem October 13, 2007

Sergey Brin

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Jordan Bester

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

How to Criticize Coworkers

Alex Turek alexturek.com

Jordan Bester

What’s going on here, with this human?

Graham Duncan Blog grahamduncan.blog

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Product Manager Resume Guide by an Ex-Facebook PM

Will Lawrence productlife.to

Tom So

The Mitochondria in Startups

Sarah Tavel sarahtavel.medium.com

Juan Orbea