Re:Engineered
His Complaint Was the Tell. I Read It as Alignment.
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When a candidate lists everything wrong with their previous employer, an engineer’s instinct is to hear it as information about the previous employer. It is often better read as information about the candidate. This episode walks through a hire Chris made almost fifteen years ago that ended with the word draconian in a resignation letter, and the pre-mortem that would have caught it in the…