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One things for sure: don't waste their time with long puzzles and month long evaluation cycles. Having just gone through the "find a new job" experience, I can
by cellis 10y ago
One things for sure: don't waste their time with long puzzles and month long evaluation cycles. Having just gone through the "find a new job" experience, I can say that the most decisive companies were the biggest. I know they say you should hire slowly, but I think that rule doesn't work well for finding really good talent. When very talented people are looking they will be off the market in 2 seconds. So instead of "hire slow", hire fast and have the backbone to fire fast.
- tedmiston 10y agoI've always interpreted "hire slow" as grow the team slowly and only when you really really need to bring on a new person as opposed to having a slow hiring process. Macro vs micro. I think you can certainly hire slow and have someone through the cycle in 1–2 weeks or less (for an early startup).
- brianwawok 10y agoThat is my take of hire slow as well. Although in most cases if the second guy you talk to is perfect, you may still need to look a bit more to be sure.