Hiring Advice

It takes less effort to interview three times as many people as it does to turn a mediocre performer into a star.

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 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.

Exec Development is a Different Game

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

Mo Shafieeha

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!

Mechanize Your Hiring Process to Make Better Decisions

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Johanna

What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth at andrewchen

Andrew Chen andrewchen.com

Sam Blumenthal

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

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 Nagpal twitter.com

sari