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Mediocrity can be a sign of excellence, and other stories

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Happy April 1st! This post is part of April Cools Club: an effort to publish genuine posts on topics our usual audience would find unexpected. The tech content will be back soon! Over the many years I spent heavily involved in intern and full-time recruiting at $PREVIOUS_JOB, multiple people have commented something to the effect of: "How come Predrag always gets the best people?" This post is a series of vignettes showing three of the less-obvious ideas that gave us an edge, despite being a startup of ~100ish people that was far from a household name. But why should you pay attention to me about any of this? While building compilers and distributed query infrastructure, my team had: Just like in pro sports, Moneyball strategies can work in tech hiring too: know the market and your competitors, find which traits they under- and over-value in candidates, and hire the top people they missed. For example, many companies have rules that explicitly exclude freshmen for their internship prog

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