Hiring Advice

How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen

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

Only hire A-players; people that blow you away. As soon as you allow mediocrity into your team, it will rot your business from the inside forevermore.

charles • Tweet

rob hardy

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

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

Brandy Cerne

Finding Undiscovered Talent

joincolossus.com

Jay Matthews

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

sari

Why and how we do work trials at Linear

Zoe Wellner linear.app

andrea

The Mitochondria in Startups

Sarah Tavel sarahtavel.medium.com

Juan Orbea

Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers | Heavybit

Heavy Bit heavybit.com

Kassen Qian