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Paul Buchheit: Building a great team
- ivankirigin 19y agoHiring is key. I liked the note about the Lake Wobegon hiring strategy here: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg... Hiring below the mean of the people at your company will cause tolerance for less talented hires to increase. Worse people hire worse people. Smart people should be instructed to only hire really smart people. This way, you'll never get the feedback loop of degrading quality. So the theory goes.
- ntoshev 19y agoSummary: the UI designer of Gmail, Google Reader and Google Calendar joined FriendFeed, and Paul is really excited about it.
- staunch 19y agoI was hoping for some advice for those of us in slightly less ideal circumstances :-) I'm charged with assembling a team of people for a new project and I certainly don't have access to the kinds of people or money PB has. It's tough trying to find great people when you have a lot of constraints.
- paul 19y agoSorry, I wish I had the answer. Even with our resources, it's still difficult. The sad thing is that there are a lot of great people out there working away at bad jobs. One of the things I try to accomplish with my my blog is to convince them to quit their bad jobs and try something new. I believe that it will be good for them, and good for the world.
- staunch 19y agoThat's actually good reminder. I probably should spend more time trying to convince some of my unhealthily comfortable friends to take a chance. A lot of them express the desire to, but tend to chicken out. Anyway, it's encouraging to know even you have difficulty with this :-) Thanks.
- ntoshev 19y agoI suppose being well-known for what you do helps more than having resources. If you have cool stuff to show, perhaps it would work better for expanding your circle of potential employees (who you still have to convince to work with you).