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These are good questions with good presentation, but checkboxes are not values. They're ideals. Nice-sounding, most everyone would pay lip service to, but not
by hitekker 9y ago
These are good questions with good presentation, but checkboxes are not values.
They're ideals. Nice-sounding, most everyone would pay lip service to, but not achievable within the constraints of the here-and-now.
I can say that I want my strategies to be design-driven, product-driven, and data-driven--- but does that mean I value them all equally?
No. Values, in my mind, are ordered lists: unlike ideals, they are grounded by priorities. Some values supersede other values, contradict existing values, or, very rarely, are equal in importance and can co-exist.
Do I want to be parent-friendly or do I want people to be available at all hours of the day?
Do I want a close-knit-family-culture or do I want people to treat it as a 9-5?
As a certain maligned CEO has said[1], to build company values you need to ask first and foremost "What is your company willing to give up?"
Once the answer has been established , then the particular wording of questions for your interviews will matter.
But not before.
[1] https://qz.com/1066756/mark-zuckerberg-explains-how-to-write-company-values-that-actually-matter/ https://qz.com/1066756/mark-zuckerberg-explains-how-to-write...
- lynnetye 9y agoThe questions are written in a way to tease these values apart. It's so easy to say you are [thing], but do you actually translate those values into daily routines, practices, and operations? The team profiles on Key Values (www.keyvalues.com) are precisely what you just described. Teams self-select their top 8 values and are forced to rank them. Limiting their selections is a way for them to implicitly say/admit what they are not, and then they are asked to qualify their selections in their profiles. How convincing / genuine / accurate / sincere they are depends on the reader.
- b0rsuk 9y agoI would even say they are not values, they're slogans. I'm puzzled by the overwhelmingly positive reception this site gets. These are not things I'm interested about. I don't speak corpospeak. I mean... Friends outside work This is farce. The only way to have friendship with with your team members is to leave the job - or the person you like leaves the job. There's inherent conflict of interest. Never underestimate the lengths people are willing to go to get more money or social status at your expense. Bonded by love of product Love of product ? What's that ? Packaging fetish ? I could understand solving problems you care about personally. Solving problems that are fun to solve. But to love product ? Has good beer Shortcut to obesity and death to grey matter. Rapidly growing team Why is that an advantage ? Maybe if you're looking for a position as a recruiter / HR specialist. It can disguise high employee rotation. Promotes from Within, Wears Many Hats, Internal Mobility, EQ > IQ, Heavily Team Oriented, Engages with Community... I have no clue what these are about.
- yks 9y agoYou gonna have a bad time in Silicon Valley with attitude like yours, young man :)