Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “hiring”
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One of Us
About a decade ago, a friend of mine, Nina (not her actual name), disappeared into a religious cult. Nina broke with her family in a pretty destructive way. After a few years, we heard she had had a child with a cult leader. Her parents never met their grandchild.
Until well into my teenage years, once or twice per year we’d spend a long weekend with my dad’s study mates and their kids.
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Hiring for Curious
If you would have to make a hiring decision for an engineer based on just one attribute, what would it be?
This is a question that was asked to me by a candidate during our recruitment process. That was a first.
I’m involved, generally, in two steps in our interviewing process: the “people manager” round (where we try to get a sense of “soft skill” behavior, collaboration with others, previous company experience, growth potential) and the “management interview” round (for engineering management positions).
Musing
Everybody is in Sales
My role in job interviews A year or two ago I had the opportunity to shadow somebody who did partner recruitment for the company I worked for at the time. After listening in on a few calls, he asked me if I had any feedback. I answered that I didn’t. I felt quite unqualified, “what you do really looks like a sales job.” “Heh,” he responded, “ultimately every job is a sales job.