Short spoken advice on hiring: treat hiring as a financial bet and avoid relying on resumes, interviews, or 'vibe' alone. Instead apply the rule “trust but verify” and require concrete proof of a candidate’s ability before making a hire, because hires involve significant recurring cost.
Hiring is a bet. You're betting if this person can actually do the job you want them to do. And if you're placing your bets based on what they give you on the resume or based on what they say in an interview or the way they answer questions, that is not a good bet. You should not place bets based on vibe. There's a rule in business I absolutely love. The rule is trust but verify. You've got to verify they can do the job. You're about to give thousands of dollars to this person every single month. That's not a small transaction. You have to know that there's value on this other side of that transaction. We need to verify with actual proof.
