Henrique Dubugras evaluates candidates on 'career delta' over total years of experience
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Henrique Dubugras, co-founder and CEO of Brex, discusses his framework for evaluating candidate potential during rapid company growth.
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“The way I think about it today is I think there's a few things, but I think the thing I most look at is career delta. So where did they, you know, start and where are they based on like, how much time are they working? You know, things like that. So if you know, if they're like out of college, you know, I want to see like, what did they do in college or before college that let them get there? You know, like that was like above the expectation. If there's five years out of work, like what did they do that was really good in those five years? So try to see not only like the experience, but like how much they achieved in a period of time, right?”
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