
How Amazon Raised the Hiring Bar and Leveraged Narratives for Decision-Making (with Colin Bryar, Former Amazon VP)
This New Way
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Hiring the Experts
The bar raisor process is one of amazon's first scalable, reputable processes that i think allowed it to transition from this relatively small, hundred person corporate company in a fast growing, multi million dollar corporation. It uses behavior interviewing, which you ask questions about past behavior on how candidates exhibited embodies amazon leadership principles to predict future performance. But there's also a specific roll called the bar raiser who helps traind interviewers and they're supposed to help the hiring team make the right decision. They don't have urgency s or to hire the candidate, because we need three people or o can hit our goals. And then it all comes together at the debris fore.
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