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From Zero to Scale: How to Pick a Market, Find the People and Build the Systems (with Dave McJannet, CEO of HashiCorp)

Supermanagers

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How to Test for Systems Thinking in an Interview

You can test for this stuff. It's hard to teach, but you can see it when it's prodded. What I ask is like, yeah, I don't know a lot about your current business. Number one, describe it to me. And there are lots of variations of that that you can test for. Some companies got really, really specific about this. Microsoft actually years ago had an interviewing technique where you could ask these competency oriented questions and you could sort of assess their answers.

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