Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started...
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.
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
reference checks are a great idea when hiring and this is a great set of questions.
Navigate the world on their own terms. The best high potential youth are often unconventional in some ways. And if you’re looking for someone unconventional and high potential, they’ll often have a rationale for their unconventional approach. Ideally they can describe their weird path in an internally coherent way without being egotistical or