Jean-Michel Lemieux
17 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 20, 2024 by Jean-Michel Lemieux · across every show →
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Mar 20, 2024
Lemieux: Tech leaders must hire 'full-stack debuggers' across all company layers
“That you need someone who, you know, has the, has like the ability to like see and address things that every layer Of your company, right? From the code to the emotions, and seeing that, like, you're basically hiring people who are full stack debuggers of thin…”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Lemieux: AI will unbloat tech teams and redistribute engineers to critical sectors
“I think companies are going to unbloat and we're going to distribute programmers, right? Like there's, we've got a global, you know, lack of procreation happening. We're going to have less and less people who can build technology where we need it. Like we need…”
Mar 20, 2024
Lemieux: Early startups die from indigestion of ideas, not starvation
“I think in your first couple of years, absolutely. And I think whoever said this, I'm not sure where this comes from, but you know, companies are going to die from indigestion before they die of starvation. Which means that we all have way too many ideas in ou…”
Mar 20, 2024 negative
Lemieux: 'Hire great people and get out of the way' is flawed advice
“Hiring great people and get out of their way is like, is basically an, it is assuming that everyone is magically going to have the same understanding of the world, is magically going to have the same quality bar, is magically going to be aligned on how they do…”
Mar 20, 2024
Lemieux: Dream job questions reveal how candidates act when unsupervised
“I've got so many jobs open. You could do anything here. What's your dream job at Atlassian, at Shopify? What is it? And could you know, could you talk to me about why that is for 10 minutes, right? So, so that question for me is like the ultimate snowboard tes…”
Mar 20, 2024
Lemieux: Asking for candidate's hardest project reveals internal quality bar
“I love this one question, which is what's the hardest thing you've built before. Cause I want to know if someone's got a cool, like an internal quality bar, you know? So I'm going to like, and I'm on it again. I want to know what, like what they would put on t…”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Lemieux: Shopify intentionally positioned itself as a movement, not a product
“Shopify wasn't about the product. It was about a movement of like, let's build this thing around entrepreneurship. And it's not like that was accidental. We had meetings about, you know, I think, you know, we have to create a movement around entrepreneurship a…”
Mar 20, 2024
Lemieux: Choose a career based on strength rather than passion
“You know, like people always say, do something you love. And I'm like, maybe I've heard this. I'm like, do something you're good at, you know? So You know, in some ways my guidance counselor was like, hey, it looks like you're good at it. There's kind of no wr…”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
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Mar 20, 2024 positive
Lemieux: Shopify measured engineering progress strictly by pull requests and shipped code
“And I literally just look at the PRs and the code that we ship and how, how, You know, how much time we spend on that. And that's literally all the progress. And that's the exact same measure I had at Shopify, by the way.”
Mar 20, 2024
Lemieux: Tech leaders must talk to a potential hire every week
“So the other thing that I thought was really important was like, if I did not talk to a candidate every week, and I don't even call them candidate. If I did not talk to someone that I'd love to work with every week, as part of like my ongoing networking, I was…”
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Mar 20, 2024 positive
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Lemieux: Polish half your features to perfection and rush the rest
“The good decision is every month pick, you know, half the things that have to be polished, like they're, like the best things on the planet, and half of them don't have to be. You know, and that's where you actually get long-term momentum”