Amazon has a wonderful ‘bar raiser’ process to ensure that the people being hired increase the overall quality of the team they are being hired for. The thumb rule for any new candidate is this: Candidate quality >= Average (Existing team quality) It’s elegant in its simplicity and more importantly (for me personally), it puts things in engineering terms. This simple filter during every hire process ensures that the candidates being hired are constantly improving the team and driving the bar upwards.
People I don’t want in my startup
People I don’t want in my startup
People I don’t want in my startup
Amazon has a wonderful ‘bar raiser’ process to ensure that the people being hired increase the overall quality of the team they are being hired for. The thumb rule for any new candidate is this: Candidate quality >= Average (Existing team quality) It’s elegant in its simplicity and more importantly (for me personally), it puts things in engineering terms. This simple filter during every hire process ensures that the candidates being hired are constantly improving the team and driving the bar upwards.