MrBeast's assistant got hired after flying in to deliver a board game on demand, not through a traditional interview. MrBeast uses psychographic tests to find the right personality type, then pitches the job's brutal reality: long hours, sacrifice, no perks. He watches who flinches versus who gets excited about the mission.
The guy who's currently MrBeast's assistant, we were like, how'd you get the job as assistant? Did you interview for this? How did he like pick you? He's like, nah, I didn't interview. They really wanted to play this board game, but Amazon Prime was going to take 2 days. And so one of his guys hit me up because he knew I had the game and he's like, fly here right now. And we want this game now. We don't want to wait 2 days for Amazon Prime. We want to play this game tonight. So I just got on a flight and I came and I handed them the board game and they were like, cool, if you're willing to do that, you can make it here. You want a job? You're extreme enough. So I was asking this guy, how do you filter for this? Because they were trying to pick up like, how do we keep people who are just all in. And he's like, now when I interview people, we do these psychographic, like, tests to figure out your personality profile. Then I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to spend an hour convincing you how hard this is going to be and how much you're going to have to sacrifice to be here. And I can just see in that, do they flinch? Do they start asking me about vacation policies or do they get excited about going on this mission?
