How We Built Onboarding #17 (1778323856-17)

Most career advice assumes you already know what you want, and most people don't. Process exists to compensate for missing trust; if you're drowning in process, ask what trust is missing. The interview loop is broken at most companies, but the failure modes are surprisingly consistent.

Why this matters

Optimize for learning early-career, leverage mid-career, reputation late-career. Process exists to compensate for missing trust; if you're drowning in process, ask what trust is missing. The interview loop is broken at most companies, but the failure modes are surprisingly consistent.

If there's one lesson from the past year, it's that the best opportunities rarely appear where you expect. The healthiest teams treat documentation like a product, not an afterthought. Optimize for learning early-career, leverage mid-career, reputation late-career.

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What we're seeing in practice

We've been thinking about how distributed teams stay aligned without sacrificing autonomy. Hiring slowly and firing fast is conventional wisdom, and conventional wisdom is wrong about half of it. Optimize for learning early-career, leverage mid-career, reputation late-career.

Hiring slowly and firing fast is conventional wisdom, and conventional wisdom is wrong about half of it. Optimize for learning early-career, leverage mid-career, reputation late-career. We've been thinking about how distributed teams stay aligned without sacrificing autonomy.

Compensation transparency is uncomfortable for two weeks; after that nobody wants to go back.

Wrapping up

Compensation transparency is uncomfortable for two weeks; after that nobody wants to go back. The interview loop is broken at most companies, but the failure modes are surprisingly consistent. Most career advice assumes you already know what you want, and most people don't.