Torres: Overrode interview panels to make hiring decisions at Drift, HubSpot
Elias Torres · Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 21, 2025 · at 39:20
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO of Agency, reflects on how he handled talent acquisition and panel feedback during his time at HubSpot and Drift.
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“By the way that I ran interview at HubSpot and Adrift, everybody, I would help, I have a panel of people interviewing, But I would always interview myself. I will do the informal, I will do the formal, I bring them in, and then I do the closing. But I let them interview, and have fun, and tell me what they think, right? And so they're like, no, no. And then I just do whatever I want. I just make the hiring decision, regardless of what the panel says, right?”
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