Hiring Advice

From Product Manager to Product Leader

Openness. You are not hiring a finished product, and therefore want to ensure the person is open to improvement and new ideas.

What to look for:
1. Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance.
2. Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move

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

Brandy Cerne

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Sam Blumenthal

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

Why not hire part-time developers?

Alex Klos aklos.substack.com

Johanna

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

Joel Spolsky joelonsoftware.com

Johanna

Frameworks for Hiring

Erik Torenberg eriktorenberg.substack.com

sari

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!

Have become a huge fan of @mattmochary 's idea of checking your energy level before and after chatting with someone, when deciding whether to work with them. It seems a bit silly when you first hear about it, but over time it's become my #1 most important hiring heuristic.

Flo Crivello twitter.com

ssari

great heuristic for hiring