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<h1 class="content-subhead">08 Dec 2014, 00:00</h1>
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<a href="http://www.jeremyshute.com/post/on-hiring/" class="post-title">On Hiring</a>
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<p>I learned how to hire while I worked for Google, a company that has an enviable
number of great engineers. They frequently rank in the <a href="http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-companies/100-best-companies-to-work-for">top places to
work</a>,
but when I left the thing I missed the most was not the free food or the
generous vacation. I missed the people.</p>
<p>How did Google get so many great engineers? I’ve heard it said that great
problems attract great people. I’ve also heard it said that great people
attract great people. I actually think they just hire great people.</p>
<p>So, if you want to emulate their success, what should you do?</p>
<p>Whenever you measure a population, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution">bell
curve</a> is bound to come up.
The bell curve is used to measure underlying processes that have an outcome
that’s the sum of many small random events. You can probably safely assume
that your measure of “employee quality” will look like a bell curve. You can
also probably safely assume your applicant’s interview scores will also look
like a bell curve.</p>
<p>By changing policies and processes, you can increase the accuracy of the hiring
decision. The name of the game here is increasing the correlation between
“employee quality” and applicant interview score. They’ll both still look like
a bell curve when viewed independently, but when plotted against one another
the relationship becomes obvious.</p>
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<p>By changing the number of applicants you reject, you bias the result toward the
ones that are of “employee quality.” Notice that in the <em>p=0</em> graph above, the
right side of the graph looks like it has the same mean on the <em>y</em> axis as the
left side of the graph. However, if you divide the <em>p=1</em> graph, the right side
will have a much higher mean than the left side.</p>
<p>How do these factors relate to each other? I put together a quick random
simulation to determine exactly that. Unfortunately at a sample size of 100 it
was too difficult to read, so the following represents what happens when hiring
1,000 employees.</p>
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<p>Two things stand out to me immediately.</p>
<p>If you want a chance of hiring an organization that performs in the 90th+
percentile, you need an accuracy of at least 50%. Your interview questions
need to be topical to the job function, demonstrable skills need to be
demonstrated, and you should try to get information from multiple interviewers.</p>
<p>But, you also need a bias of at least 75%! In other words, you have to say
“no” to at least 3 out of 4 candidates, regardless of how accurate you think
your process is. Looking at the slope, it’s clear that bias becomes even more
important than accuracy as you try to exceed the 90th+ percentile of
performance.</p>
<p>Applicants should understand that great organizations are built by having high
precision but low recall.</p>
<p><em>I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a
member. – Groucho Marx</em></p>
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<h1 class="content-subhead">07 Dec 2014, 00:00</h1>
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By <strong class="post-author">Jeremy Shute</strong>
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<p>The folks over at <a href="https://drone.io">drone.io</a> offer free builds for open
source projects. However, currently they only support Go 1.2. This method
allows you to to cross-compile artifacts with a more recent version of Go.</p>
<p>Copy <strong>commands.sh</strong> and <strong>environment-variables.sh</strong> into the <strong>Settings / Build &
Test</strong> tab and copy <strong>artifacts.sh</strong> into the <strong>Settings / Artifacts</strong> tab. Then,
adjust the <strong>GOX_OSARCH</strong> environment variable to your liking.</p>
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<p>Incidentally, I specified that my project is <strong>C / C++</strong> for the simple reason
that gox recompiles the build toolchain.</p>
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<h1 class="content-subhead">05 Dec 2014, 00:00</h1>
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By <strong class="post-author">Jeremy Shute</strong>
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<p>In my <a href="http://lnkd.in/dpcE8SZ">professional life</a>, I’m a Director of
Infrastructure for <a href="https://www.altschool.com">AltSchool</a>. In non-manager
speak that means I lead complex projects that are important and impactful to
our whole engineering team.</p>
<p>I also pinch hit as an individual contributor, though perhaps the most
important thing I can do for our success is recognize and support other great
individual contributors.</p>
<p>Did I mention that <a href="https://www.altschool.com/jobs">AltSchool is hiring</a>?</p>
<p>I used to work at <a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a>, another great company.
When I got there in 2005, it was a few thousand people, and when I left it had
grown over 10x. I loved it there, but I left to try to innovate a $T+
addressable market that doesn’t look much different
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=classroom+2010">now</a> from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=classroom+1910">100 years
ago</a> with a really
excellent team.</p>
<p>I live in <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fort+Greene,+Brooklyn,+NY/">Fort
Greene</a> with my
wife Sarah and our dog Oscar. I like taking pictures and have lately tried my
hand at homebrewing.</p>
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