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

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great interview questions for PMs!

An Hour on Early Stage Hiring

docs.google.com

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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

How to Criticize Coworkers

Alex Turek alexturek.com

Jordan Bester

The Three-Hour Brand Sprint

Medium library.gv.com

Jordan Bester

Hire people who give a shit.

Alexandr Wang alexw.substack.com

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Creatively - The Job Platform For Creatives

creatively.life

Sam Blumenthal

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...

open.spotify.com

Gaia Soykok

The job description Bezos wrote for his very first employee said, “You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.

Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

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