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#1 - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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Greg: In the case where a candidate is totally failing the interview, like flipping a switch in your brain and going from like evaluation or into teaching mode. So it means crazy brain teasers. It's just being mean, thinking,. sort of, sort of, getting slightly angry and aggressive in how you answer their questions. Because you're frustrated by how poorly they're doing. Greg: How many people do you advise one-on-one interviews or how many people to per interview? YC max out at two to one.

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