Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
good reminder to keep the bar really high.
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
- What to look for: This is usually very easy to assess, but look for someone unpretentious and a pleasure to be around.
- What to ask: You know it when you see it.
Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People
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How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)
Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?
David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his
Much of Silicon Valley is the reshuffling of uninspired, unremarkable individuals with one Great Brand on their resume, being recycled through tens of other Aspiring Great Brands.
Do not outsource your talent evaluation to Brand identification, otherwise your company will suck.
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