Ask these questions before you hire!

14 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A explains their hiring approach centered on a core value of being "improvement obsessed." To assess this, they ask candidates about recent AI work, emphasizing concrete examples beyond generic mentions of ChatGPT. If candidates struggle, the interview pivots to a deeper probe: asking the candidate to describe their most impressive, role‑relevant accomplishment and why it matters. Speaker B inquires how improvement obsession is measured, prompting Speaker A to outline these two key interview questions as practical evaluation tools.

You hire people that have been there, done that. And for us, you know, our top core value is to be improvement obsessed.
How do you measure for improvement obsession?
One thing we do is we ask them, hey, like, what have you done with AI recently? If they're a little more kind of mid-senior level, they're not junior in the career, what have you done recently with AI? Don't just say ChatGPT, right? And if they can't give a really impressive example, that's okay. We'll continue on that thread. We'll say, okay, well, Jasmine, tell me what's the most impressive thing you've done in your career as it relates to this role and tell us why you consider it to be impressive.