Hung Lee
Editor & Curator, Recruiting Brainfood. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Hung Lee is a talent acquisition expert and the creator of Recruiting Brainfood, a weekly newsletter focused on recruiting and HR tech. He previously co-founded WorkShape.io and hosts discussions on hiring trends through Brainfood Live and related podcasts.
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Everything Hung Lee said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lee: Brutalizing a Business With Mandates Efficiently Forces Cultural Shifts
“However, It may be the way to cut the Gordian knot is to brutalize the business. I'm not suggesting this is the way forward, but it is clearly a method forward. And you do wonder how many leaders have been quietly inspired by this approach and may in fact be a…”
Remote-First Organizational Structures Inherently Favor Senior Individual Contributors
“If we are absolutely a remote first company, We are probably optimized as an employer for a senior individual contributor that has already achieved a certain degree of material comfort in order to provide for home or working has social security in the sense of…”
Lee: Remote-first companies hold a significant recruiting advantage over non-remote competitors
“We've got multiple data points to suggest that companies that are operating a remote first policy typically have a significant advantage against companies that do not.”
VMware Cut Time-to-Hire in Half by Switching to Remote Hiring
“VMware, for instance were, did a sort of before and after comparison in terms of their time to hire when it comes down to where they doing on-premise hiring pre pre the big over period, and then they switched to remote hiring and they reduced their time to hir…”
Lee: Early-career workers prefer in-office work to accelerate learning
“It was very clear that someone who was an early career person, they did not want remote. It wasn't, it was something that, you know, they thought about yes, no, they literally didn't want it. They wanted the office because they wanted the learning. They want t…”
Lee: Pre-COVID remote companies avoided hiring entry-level talent
“A lot of remote companies did not hire early entry talent because of exactly the concept of this person needed to have control of their home work environment, so to speak.”
Hung Lee: Elon Musk reduced Twitter's headcount down to 20%
“Now what he managed to do was to obviously wipe out more than 70% of the company, I believe, Pre-Musk. Twitter was significantly bigger than it was now. They're down to 20%, I believe, in terms of headcount.”
Hung Lee: Externalizing true company values attracts aligned candidates and repels others
“And to externalize that in some way, externalize the reality of those values. And what will happen is that you will attract people that are into it and you'll repel people that are not. And that type of sorting through, I think would do a great deal to resolve…”
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…”
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 a16zLEDGER | Editor & Curator, Recruiting Brainfood | 1 | 9 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |