You want to be hiring people that are like ideally top 5%, top 1% or top 10%. But I also think their references anchored by how many people they have also hired for as well. Have you noticed there's a discernible difference between references that the candidate gave you and you doing your own backdoor references? "For the right candidate, no, I really do think that," he says.

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