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We borrowed our hiring process from Google. Every single person that comes through the door goes through a standardized interview with at least eight people who interview them, often in pairs. There are standardized scorecards, standardized questions, all managed by an applicant-tracking system. The hiring manager has to defend each candidate like
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One of the best ways to get signal on the culture at a startup is to look at where the founders, PMs, and early employees came from. Since product management doesn’t have a single, well-known definition, teams generally bring along the definition that they learned from their past companies.
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five critical areas have emerged of conversation between manager and contributor:
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The good news is that the same system that allows your company to operate well with twenty-five people will also allow it to work well with twenty-five thousand. Neither the system nor the amount of overhead will change. It is a one-time hit.