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every company has the same hiring criteria - by Ethan Ding

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this article summarizes all the advice on hiring i’ve read into three pillars, such that all other advice can be ignored — it is an attempt at over-generalizing. It will outline how I will take this to the extremes and how we will implement it at our company. how i got to this read a bunch of stuff came up with my own kept seeing it while reading other’s advice now generalizing it w/ evidence generalizing it to company values [hard] like amazon, facebook, uber [early], and ourselves does experience matter? does anything else matter? experimental current textql solution: [cc Mr. Beast memo] i’ve hated reading all the advice on hiring in the world. it feels like a giant checklist that just grows larger and larger, as every famous person has their own unique angle to it. at some point, i made up the idea of agency x competence in my head - and it seemed to be a better distillation that fits in my brain then i came across someone with very high competence and agency, but wanted to take max

every company has the same hiring criteria the primary contrarian belief this essay puts forth is: experience is not worth hiring for Ethan Ding Jun 23, 2025 301 27 19 Share this article summarizes all the advice on hiring i’ve read into three pillars, such that all other advice can be ignored — it is an attempt at over-generalizing. It will outline how I will take this to the extremes and how we will implement it at our company. skeleton: how i got to this read a bunch of stuff came up with my own kept seeing it while reading other’s advice now generalizing it w/ evidence generalizing it to c

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