How to find (and retain) your hardest to hire positions
summary
Practical hiring and retention advice: recruit key people years in advance, hire for intellectual curiosity and learning aptitude rather than checkbox skills, ditch whiteboard puzzles for a timeboxed take‑home test (eg build an API server that returns the current time, four hours with escalating tasks and deployment), pay enough so compensation is off the table, treat stock options as likely diluted, run weekly one‑on‑ones, give autonomy and ownership, and refuse counteroffers because people who accept them are usually already mentally gone.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Petes background
- 4:40You cant keep everyone
- 7:29Recruiting is the long game
- 9:24What is a checkbox hire
- 14:12Why do we lose people
- 16:17How to get work done
- 18:10Opensource projects
- 19:40Remote employees
- 20:51Work for exposure
- 23:01STP
- 24:01Stock Options
- 27:26Counteroffers
- 29:44Ownership
- 30:34Treat them like adults
