Lenny Rachitsky: prediction

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…I think the most important thing is that people care a lot and they're not just like, "Oh, I'm here for a job. I'm here for being just a passenger on this journey," but everyone should really care about the product, the users and care a ton about the team, how the team works together and that you're always contributing to making the team work more productively together and that care or preferably obsession gets you a very long way and then you do often want to have absolute superpower in some dimension to be able to understand and do as many possible things as possible, have this generalist brain that quickly learns any skill but be super, super good in one dimension. And for us that's mostly cramming as much out of AI, out of the large language models and understanding the entire parameter space of what you can change to make our product perform better. So, how do you actually test for these things? Some of these things describe, I think everyone's looking for, they care about the user, they want to collaborate well. Because you have 18 people building in a company that's growing more than a million ARR every week. That's an absurd scale and the people you have found are clearly world-class and I think a lot of people are going to want to hire the type of people you're hiring. So when you're actually interviewing, how do you suss out some of these things like their AI cramming skills, their team building collaboration, what do you actually do? I ask people what they've done before and these people that I'm describing, they have often done something where they care a lot about what they've done before and dig into details about the technical things that they did. And then we do the normal thing of showing a very hard problem that is a bit unorthodox that someone hasn't seen before preferably and see how they think through thinking research through that. Then something that I think is more uncommon is that we do, I pretty much always have people join the work simulation for at least a day, often a full week.…

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