Farhan Thawar
9 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 12, 2021 by Farhan Thawar · across every show →
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Feb 12, 2021 positive
Robust internship programs make hiring experienced full-time employees significantly easier
“The other thing I found interesting is whenever I've had a really robust internship program, I find that it's easier to hire full times. And I think that's a combination of things, whether it's greater, a better sense of how to onboard, or even thinking throug…”
Feb 12, 2021 negative
Job interviews are notoriously poor predictors of actual candidate performance
“Interviews are not that good at predictor performance.
Actually, it's on the slide.
and it's really just a way for you to figure out if somebody might be a fit for you.
And so the shorter you can make that process, like I wouldn't recommend hours or hours lon…”
Feb 12, 2021
Farhan Thawar once hired seven engineers on the spot at a fair
“I famously hired seven engineers at a career fair, like hired them, like not, didn't, like, just get their resumes or give them a t-shirt, actually hired them at the career fair, and so I think that there are amazing ways to reduce the friction to talking to p…”
Feb 12, 2021
Companies should skip standard interviews for returning interns seeking full-time roles
“When somebody who used to work for me or a previous intern wants to come back for a full-time job, we don't put them in the interview process, right? Cause Unless you really just got to figure out one dimension of them, like you might want to figure out, oh, t…”
Feb 12, 2021 positive
Feb 12, 2021 positive
Managers should encourage top interns to finish other internships before accepting offers
“I encourage people who I thought did a great job at my company, and I would give them a full-time offer to still finish their internships at other companies, because you want to make sure that you are getting that experience and you figure out, oh yeah, this r…”
Feb 12, 2021 positive
Early-stage startups can successfully scale with a one-to-one intern-to-engineer ratio
“So in startups, I like to think of like one-to-one when I was at extreme labs, like by the end there, I put in, you know, we have our ending stat there. We had about 65 interns out of 350 employees, but when we were growing, we had one intern to one engineer.”
Feb 12, 2021 positive
Raffling prizes for resumes at info sessions rapidly drives intern applicant volume
“An easy way to get people to apply is have prizes, right? You could say, I would just say, oh, I'm giving out an Xbox, and here's I'm gonna pick a resume out of this pile, and literally I would just, you know, people would go, people would leave the seminar, p…”
Feb 12, 2021 positive
Emailing university professors for top student recommendations is an underutilized recruiting tactic
“Don't forget that professors know also what the best, like who the best students are. And so you're hitting on like a really good, like secret, meaning like not many people do this, but I've been doing it like my whole career, like email professors, Get, get t…”