Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
An Hour on Early Stage Hiring
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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 Wendelx.com
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 Nagpaltwitter.comFind Your People
joincolossus.com- How would you describe the candidate to someone who doesn’t know them?
- What is the context in which you know the candidate?
- How many people have you worked with in a similar context? How would you compare the candidate to those other people?
- If this person’s name comes up in your inbox, DMs, or they’re calling you, what do you feel? What do you expect
Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring
reference checks are a great idea when hiring and this is a great set of questions.
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