Hiring Advice

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Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest

Jeff Atwood review.firstround.com

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen

andrewchen.com

Jordan Bester

dreamers addicted to reality instead of realists addicted to dreams. -Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring

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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.

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

Brandy Cerne

Conflict Avoidance is Dishonesty

Sarah Guo linkedin.com

Mo Shafieeha

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

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What’s going on here, with this human?

Graham Duncan Blog grahamduncan.blog

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The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

Joel Spolsky joelonsoftware.com

Johanna

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

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