Interview

“So you don't want to be over prepped, right? Because sometimes you'll be talking to a person And you kind of already know where they're going with the conversation, so you might be saying things before they say it, so it's like sometimes I just like the sense …”

“We haven't started testing it rigorously yet. I mean, we have had our models take our interviews and they're extremely good. So I don't think that would tell us, but yeah, interviews are only a poor approximation of real shot performance unfortunately.”

“The other thing I say with the interview and the negotiations is you've got to go do a debrief right afterwards, Lenny, because we all have these cockamamie ideas about what happened. We think we did terribly when we did well, we think, you know, and we need t…”

“If you're going to prioritize, like, an interview versus a deal versus, let's say, you know, like an internal meeting, you really want to make sure there's one thing you prioritize, it's like the interview, because especially early on when you're founding the …”

“No one is going to connect the dots in your career except you. And if you're counting on someone when you're sitting across them to have an interview to try to make a career pivot, to understand your career journey, because if you are trying to make a pivot, i…”

“98 out of a hundred folks won't bother an interview. They won't bother. They're just gonna click on apply on the ATS and tell you, hey, I recently stumbled upon whatever it looks like. Do you have time to discuss?”

“You don't ask people in an interview for their opinion on things, because opinions are often born of confusion. It'll sound, could sound great or sexy in the moment, but then, you know, wasn't really germane to like how they do their job day to day.”

“And then obviously, you go through all these interviews, the only one that really matters is the back channel.”

“But it was only after media reports started surfacing, quoting anonymous government officials about the Sony movie, that everyone then jumped on this bandwagon and said this was about the movie. But the hackers themselves never mentioned the movie.”