Founders

Founders: how involved are you in decisions to interview or hire?

General Counsel @valoraxyz | Casts are personal | I am not your lawyer 🕶️

I’ve been the first hiring manager 3x times - founders do not know what they want. Department leads don’t know what they want. 

I usually recommend 3 stages: me as screener, then technical (departmental heads) then founders. 

My goal is to reduce the time interviewing for all parties

🕯️they/them, candlemaker at https://humankind.place

i hadn’t thought of this, viz. founders/leads aren’t clear on their goals. (i likely should have but didn’t correct for my sources including Founders on pods speaking eloquently of goals.)

co-founder @learnweb3 / 64k on twt 🐦 / gm ☀️ 

it appears an interesting conundrum though: your goal is to shorten time, yet @kacieahmed  indicated he spent a long time on the process which resulted in a best hire. 

that tension must be difficult to resolve?

We spend the same time, approx 3-6 months for the right hire.

But in terms of individual time, I spend the most time, the tech team spends the less, and the founders spend the least