Hiring Advice

How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

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

An Hour on Early Stage Hiring

docs.google.com

sari

Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Johanna

How to Scale: Lessons from Stripe CEO | Khosla

khoslaventures.com

Brie Wolfson

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

ssari

reference checks are a great idea when hiring and this is a great set of questions.

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

slope_vs_starting.md

Professor John Ousterhout gist.github.com

Keely Adler

AAlara

don’t forget the dynamic range of humans