hiring

“So we actually have a written screen that we do with folks where it's just a Google doc that has like a dozen or so biographical questions that we allow people to answer. And you'd be shocked like the way that, how well it screens people like, you know, 50% of…”

“My biggest thing I say with all time is when you're hiring, you pick the people, but they pick when.”

“People think of like the talent density of your company as dependent on hiring. And that's obviously true. It's an important part of the ecosystem and the first part, but it's equally dependent on retention and performance management.”

“Like a lot of engineering managers are spending half their time or more hiring like 18 months ago, and now they're doing like two interviews a month or less, maybe zero interviews a month.”

“I've found, you know, a weird, weird rule that I found is that a lot of the best hires that I've had, have had big failure stories that they've worked through and learned from.”

“We only hire for a role if we're actually underwater for that function.”

“What happens when you have people that join a company and in reality, you didn't really need them. They will go out and manufacture some other thing that they should go work on. They should, they will go out and figure out something else to work on. And realis…”