Hiring Advice

Google is standardizing interview questions (finally?) so I am forced to retire my bootleg interview questions. In honor of the great service they've done over 200+ PM interviews, I'm going to do a thread that I expect no one to read but I have no other way to memorialize them.

Chris Perry twitter.com

ssari

great interview questions for PMs!

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

How to negotiate

Sriram Krishnan sriramk.com

Yaro Celis

2 Signs That You Will Become Wealthy One Day..

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Jordan Bester

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Michael Jackson • Michael Jackson on LinkedIn: #culture #work #jobs #employment #benefits #law #lawyer #lawfirms… | 98 comments

ssari

regardless of what you think of this (hustle porn or roadmap to get ahead at work), I think more employers should adapt the practice of setting clear, non-negotiable expectations as part of the hiring process.

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

Hire people who give a shit.

Alexandr Wang alexw.substack.com

sari

slope_vs_starting.md

Professor John Ousterhout gist.github.com

Keely Adler

How to Criticize Coworkers

Alex Turek alexturek.com

Jordan Bester