Hiring Manager
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Foster: Google found hiring managers have no predictive edge over each other
“I remember Google sharing like a lot of their hiring insights where they did a ton of tests around this stuff like this. And I think what they found was that no hiring managers were like, had an edge over any other hiring managers with one exception. And the o…”
Ward: Recruiters are confidence engines, not the ultimate hiring decision-makers
“I think a lot of companies recruiting owns the hiring goal. And I've yet to be in a company where recruiters are making hiring decisions. So these things are in conflict. Hiring managers or leaders or committees are making hiring decisions. And I feel like the…”
Ward: Hiring is not a democracy; managers must own the final decision
“The role of the hiring manager is, you know, it's not a democracy. Hiring manager is holding their, that group accountable for getting, helping them get them the right inputs to make out the right decision, to make the best decision, hire or no hire.”
Warwick: Higher confidence leads to shorter communication in negotiations
“The more confident you get, the shorter your communication gets.”
Lord: Hiring managers will not manually review resumes in five years
“The hiring manager process of like reviewing 200 resumes. Are you kidding me? I'm going to sit there and review 200 resumes. Like not a chance five years from now, right? Like students manually making cover, like not a chance, right?”
De Milliano: Executive hiring decisions must never be made by committee
“I don't think any important decisions like this can be made by committee. Like they should, I mean, they should use input from all the folks who, you know, were part of the interview process, but ultimately the founder has to decide or the hiring manager.”
Treat PM interviews as customer discovery to solve the hiring manager's problem
“Everyone who's hiring PMs, just like when they're hiring execs, they're kind of hoping that they bring them on to solve some burning problem that they have. And so it's your job when you're in the interview process to figure out what that burning problem is. R…”
Terry: Aligning on role needs turns hiring managers into internal advocates
“As much as you can work with the hiring manager, even if it's to say, Hey, I just want to run by you. Some of the things I think I need to succeed in the role, you know, before we talk money, you know, with the hiring manager or whatever, with the recruiter, I…”
Rachitsky: Hiring managers often lack strict budgets and support higher compensation
“Cause oftentimes you don't really have like a specific budget as a hiring manager. So to you, it's like, sure, four-fifty let's, let's make it happen.”
MacInnis: Hiring managers should never ask others who to hire
“Hiring managers should not ask someone else who they should hire. They should simply ask for objective inputs to the decision, and then they can make the decision themselves.”
Larson: Common hiring bottleneck is managers lacking confidence to extend offers
“And so for a lot of candidates or a lot of pipelines, the biggest issue is hiring managers don't want to extend any offers because the hiring managers can't get to confidence on any candidate.”
Crowley: Aspiring PMs should accept any job offering the official title
“My advice is always, if you can get someone to stamp you with the product manager role, take it, because to your point, it's what we screen on. It's for better force. It's just like, you just have to, you have to get that first job. And then once you get that …”
Lee: Hiring candidates under economic stress leads to poor employee retention
“And even if you do end up, let's say hiring a few people because they are under economic stress, you're not going to keep those folks because, you know, they joined you for those stressful reasons. You have to hire people that are motivated to work for your bu…”
Hiring managers refusing to allow reverse reference checks are red flags
“And if a company says no, or a person says no. I think that actually says a bit more about them than, you know, anything else, if they're trying to kind of withhold that from you, because why would you? If I'm a great manager, I'm happy to have you talk to peo…”
Managers reject structured hiring because algorithms threaten their reliance on intuition
“I think it's less about the time and more about the gospel of intuition. Too many hiring managers are afraid that if they essentially delegate, I mean, this is a more algorithmic, it's a more algorithmic approach to decision making, right? If I delegate my kno…”
Only two interventions substantially increase confidence and success in hiring
“The only two things I've ever seen that really substantially increase your confidence in hiring are two things. One is taking the extra time to, with the manager to actually understand the specification as we talked about. Huge amount of, it really is worth th…”
First-time hiring managers for a specific role lack valid intuition
“If you're a hiring manager and you've never hired anybody before, you've never hired anybody of that particular responsibility or role type, you're not going to do it well. You're not. You're going to be blind to all sorts of things. You don't have any sort of…”