“HR Heretics” | How CPOs, CHROs, Founders, and Boards Build High Performing Companies Get Inside the Mind of your Team’s Best Interviewer, with Vercel’s Viet Nguyen [from 10X Recruiting]
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Oct 30, 2025 In this engaging conversation, Viet Nguyen, Head of Global Recruiting Operations at Vercel, shares his journey mastering recruiting through a unique five-year tour of duty. He explains how AI can decode the unconscious patterns of top interviewers to enhance hiring success. Viet reveals five key behavioral indicators for interviewer training and discusses innovative tools for automating reference checks and debrief summaries, making the recruiting process more efficient. Tune in for insights that blend tech with the art of hiring!
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Decode Top Interviewers With Raw Transcripts
- Throw messy, unstructured interview transcripts into an LLM to surface repeatable interviewer patterns quickly.
- Viet used ~3–4 hours to extract five repeatable behaviors that make an interviewer predict success.
Ship Small AI Experiments Fast
- Favor progress over perfection: run small AI experiments instead of waiting for perfect solutions.
- Do incremental pilots that solve part of the problem and iterate from real usage.
Rejected Candidate Becomes Ally
- Nolan had previously rejected Viet for a role at Carta, yet they later reconnected as colleagues and friends.
- Viet reflects that conversations and connections can outlast transactional hiring moments.