MrBeast's assistant got hired by flying in to hand-deliver a board game instead of waiting for Amazon. The team uses psychographic tests and watches for flinches during interviews: candidates who ask about vacation policies don't make it, but those excited about the mission do.
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 pick you? And he's like, no, 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. 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 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 this culture as we scale of people who are just all in? He's like, now when I interview people, we do these psychographic 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?
