Every company has the same hiring criteria
15 days ago
- #leadership
- #company-culture
- #hiring
- The primary contrarian belief is that experience is not worth hiring for.
- Hiring criteria can be distilled into three pillars: Agency (drive, ambition), Competence (intelligence, skill), and Character (integrity, ethics).
- Prominent leaders like Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen, Reed Hastings, and Brad Jacobs emphasize similar traits in their hiring philosophies.
- Company values often overlap with these three axes, though they are frequently vague or overly generalized.
- Specialized roles can be managed using consultants, but ownership and agency should remain with the core team.
- The author concludes that TextQL will hire smart generalists with high agency, intelligence, and good character, avoiding 'years of experience' as a criterion.