It’s vitally important that you sit down face to face and grab a beer with every potential hire. Or sit down for dinner. Smoke a joint. I don’t care what it is

It’s vitally important that you sit down face to face and grab a beer with every potential hire. Or sit down for dinner. Smoke a joint. I don’t care what it is — you need to sit down in a relaxed environment and figure out what kind of person they are. I have an old Mormon friend who would be put off by this phrasing. Good guy, very competent. Positively useless around beer. As for the "hire someone you want to be around all day" angle, that's why I'm putting personal interests back on my resume. I'm tired of pretending I'm a soulless automaton, only to gingerly feel out the place when I get there for the interview. From now on, there's a list of interests, and a note reading, "if you wonder why this list is here, or if your first reaction is not, 'I want to meet this guy!' please move on to other candidates." Maybe it will come off as arrogant, but I just can't take the games anymore, and I want to work with people that I actually like.