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No problem is unfixable. And a lot of my job is trying to understand exactly why a company struggles to hire. (So Jeff can fix it.)
One that pops up occasionally: an inflexible adherence to a process created by one of the big dogs. Google or Facebook or Apple or somebody. Something they read in a book.
Or something their old company used. Or their PE/VC firm recommended.
Where it breaks down: you ain’t them.
It took this monster org hundreds (thousands?) of iterations to get their interview and hiring processes to where they are now.
It took a lot of internal infrastructure (the processes behind the process) for it to work.
And, you know, they still get it wrong sometimes. Just like everyone else.
You can learn a lot from these types of companies. But you need to recognize: you’re different.
Your team is different. Your product is different. Your goals are different. Your resources are different. Your selling points in what will attract candidate are different.
Take what you can and learn from it.
👉But understand what’s unique about your organization and what you need to modify to make it fit.
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