<aside> 📌 Hiring well is the most important thing in the universe.

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Nothing else comes close. It’s more important than breathing.

So when you’re working on hiring—participating in an interview loop or innovating in the general area of recruiting—everything else you could be doing is stupid and should be ignored!

Here are some questions we always ask ourselves when evaluating candidates:

• Would I want this person to be my boss?
• Would I learn a significant amount from him or her? Is he/she resourceful?
• What if this person went to work for our competition?
• Is this person a cultural fit?

We’re looking for people stronger than ourselves.

When unchecked, people tend to hire others who are lower-powered than themselves.

The questions listed above are designed to help ensure that we don’t start hiring people who are useful but not as powerful as we are.

We should hire people more capable than ourselves, not less.

In some ways, hiring lower-powered people is a natural response to having so much work to get done.

In these conditions, hiring someone who is at least capable seems (in the short term) to be smarter than not hiring anyone at all.

But that’s a huge mistake.

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Our Hiring Process

Here’s what is most important to us in our hiring process: