every company has the same hiring criteria - by Ethan Ding
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the primary contrarian belief this essay puts forth is: experience is not worth hiring for
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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