Hiring

Know how this hire affects your growth plan: I am hiring for [__] to be responsible for []. These responsibilities are currently with []. This will free them up to handle [__].

• The SaaSy Guide to Hiring
• A Staff-shaped Hole
• HN: What’s wrong with how we train, hire, and motivate programmers
• People have a right to deeply understand their compensation
• Lethain: Bar raisers, hiring committees, and other complex ways to improve hiring quality
• Ravi Gupta: Hiring
• Hire people who give a shit
• Hire slowly, grow slowly
• Why do tech startups still hire so many people?
• Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men
• Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses
• The Myth of A-Players
• The opportunity you’ve been waiting for
• We Need Someone Who Has Done “It” Before
• Maintain a transition file
• You can’t hire ambitious people and then ask them to stop being ambitious
• Hire Great Writers
• Lethain: Running your engineering onboarding program.
• On hiring, rehiring, and one question to answer them all
• It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

Books:

• 2008: Geoff Smart and Randy Street: Who
• 2022: Daniel Gross and Tyler Cowen: Talent

• How To Write A Cover Letter For A Job
• The Varieties of Human Work