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Ding, ding, ding. You hit the nail on the head. The technical interviews & hiring criteria are often not aligned with what the company fundamentally needs in
by Matt_Mickiewicz 13y ago
Ding, ding, ding.
You hit the nail on the head.
The technical interviews & hiring criteria are often not aligned with what the company fundamentally needs in order to accomplish its goals. The founders/CTO are often rockstars, and they refuse to acknowledge that what their company needs is productive employees, not clones of themselves.
This leads to an enormous amount of time spent interviewing people in search for these rare "unicorns".
- 7Figures2Commas 13y ago> The founders/CTO are often rockstars... Out of curiosity, what makes for a "rockstar" founder or CTO?
- talmand 13y agoI think the intention was to say that they are "rockstars" in their own head with however way they choose to define it. I could be wrong but that's my take.
- Matt_Mickiewicz 13y agoTheir background was impressive enough that they where able to raise venture funding for their start-up. Many times they have built or worked on something technically impressive, that became big & well known (Google Maps, Facebook timeline, Founding engineer at start-up with Billion dollar+ valuation).