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I didn't even read the article because I know there is no secret. We don't hire the best people. We hire average people, some good people, some great people,
by paxunix 11y ago
I didn't even read the article because I know there is no secret.
We don't hire the best people. We hire average people, some good people, some great people, some mediocre people, and some people who aren't very good at their jobs. Some of those mediocre and average people turn out to be great people after all. There's no secret to it. We like telling ourselves there is a secret because everyone likes to feel special and we think if we can mirror other companies that we think are successful then we can be successful just like they were.
In the end, you have people working with people. If you're fortunate, you get the right people interviewing the right person at the right time, and you get a great hire. At best, you can filter out the obviously bad ones. The rest, you'll find out about as you go. Some will surprise you, some will meet your expectations, and some will be disasters. Fire the bad ones; coach and mentor the average ones; keep track of the great ones.
Go build some shit with people you like building shit with and stop trying to figure out how to make hiring objective. You can't.
- Pyxl101 11y agoFYI, the article is satire. Not reading it will miss the point :-)
- gaur 11y agoThe article is satire, but I have no doubt that there are interviewers who intentionally use some of these techniques.
- fogleman 11y agoIncredible to me that someone would write such a lengthy comment based on a headline alone.
- andrewstuart 11y agoIt's because so many posts on HN are cookie cutter - usually you don't need to read the post to know what the (same old) message is. You know: "Why my startup failed" (cause I built something no-one wants) "Why we switched from this technology to that technology" (because the old one sucked but the new one will solve all our problems) "How we built a startup that fixed hiring" (they didn't) "How to hire great people" (no-one knows) "Why we were rejected from YC" (can an idea be that bad?) "Our experience of interviewing at YC" (we were scared, it didn't take long, we got accepted!) etc etc
- VikingCoder 11y agoYeah, except this one is satire, and it's pretty good.
- sjg007 11y agoThe truth is stranger than fiction.
- exabrial 11y ago^^^ This post is awesome
- kobayashi 11y agoI'd like to believe that both paxunix and andrewsteward wrote those comments after having read the article, but pretended like they didn't for the Internet points. Actually makes the comments a bit funnier.
- underwater 11y agoIf everyone is talking and no one is listening what is the point?
- diskcat 11y agoto generate a lot of data to sell microprocessors to people who make internet bots
- probinso 11y agoGood hires don't need to read the whole article
- incepted 11y agoAnd by doing that, completely missed the point of the article.
- TulliusCicero 11y agoYou probably should've read the article.
- gnaritas 11y ago> Go build some shit with people you like building shit with and stop trying to figure out how to make hiring objective. You can't. Yes you can. It's quite easy, make people build something small to get hired, that eliminates 99% of submissions who are just lying about their skills and posing and with code in hand, it's quite easy to decide who's full of shit and who isn't. Resume's are useless, demand code, real programmers program.
- sush1612 11y agoThis is a good summary "Go build some shit with people you like building shit with and stop trying to figure out how to make hiring objective. You can't."