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What makes someone a truly remarkable talent evaluator — Nadia Singer, Figma’s Chief People Officer

Mar 30, 2023

49:27

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

Figma's Unique Culture

2min

How to Sell a Candidate

2min

How to Interview a Candidate

1min

Building a Portrait of a Candidate

3min

How to Be a Great Interviewer

4min

How to Be a Better Talent Evaluator

3min

How to Interview for Self-Awareness

3min

The Importance of Reflection in Interviewing

2min

10.

How to Be a Great Talent Evaluator

2min

11.

How Figma's Culture Evolves as a Business

2min

12.

The Importance of Keeping and Changing Culture at Figma

3min

13.

The Importance of Rituals in the Company

2min

14.

The Value of Transparency

3min

15.

The Role of Culture in Transparency

3min

16.

The Importance of Team Swag

2min

17.

How to Figure Out What's Urgent and Important to Keep Operating the Business

2min

18.

The Importance of Humility

3min

19.

The Importance of Balance in Work

3min

Our guest today is Nadia Singer, Chief People Officer at Figma.

Nadia joined Figma in 2020 and has seen explosive growth in her own career alongside the collaborative design platform’s. Before Figma, Singer was a talent expert who has hired hundreds of talented folks at places like Quora, Facebook and Google.

In our conversation today, we dive deep into what makes someone a terrific talent evaluator. Nadia opens up her own recruiter playbook and shares:

Her personal recruiting trick, which is to study how a candidate reaches an answer, rather than what they say
Tactics interviewers can use to avoid pattern matching and other biases
The biggest mistakes she made in her early days as a recruiter
Ways that Figma tweaked its approach to culture so it could scale alongside the company

You can follow Nadia on Twitter at @nadsinger. You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson.