EA hiring gets a lot of criticism. But I think there are aspects at which it does unusually well.
One thing I like is that hiring and holding jobs feels way more collaborative between boss and employee. I’m much more likely to feel like a hiring manager wants to give me honest information and make the best decision, whether or not that’s with them.Relative to the rest of the world they’re much less likely to take investigating other options personally.
Work trials and even trial tasks have a high time cost, and are disruptive to people with normal amounts of free time and work constraints (e.g. not having a boss who wants you to trial with other orgs because they personally care about you doing the best thing, whether or not it’s with them). But trials are so much more informative than interviews, I can’t imagine hiring for or accepting a long-term job without one.
Trials are most useful when you have the least information about someone, so I expect removing them to lead to more inner-ring dynamics and less hiring of unconnected people.
EA also has an admirable norm of paying for trials, which no one does for interviews.
The impression I get from the interview paradigm vs work trial paradigm is: so much of today’s civilization is less than 100 years old, and really big transformations happen during each decade. The introduction of work trials is one of those things.
EA hiring gets a lot of criticism. But I think there are aspects at which it does unusually well.
One thing I like is that hiring and holding jobs feels way more collaborative between boss and employee. I’m much more likely to feel like a hiring manager wants to give me honest information and make the best decision, whether or not that’s with them.Relative to the rest of the world they’re much less likely to take investigating other options personally.
Work trials and even trial tasks have a high time cost, and are disruptive to people with normal amounts of free time and work constraints (e.g. not having a boss who wants you to trial with other orgs because they personally care about you doing the best thing, whether or not it’s with them). But trials are so much more informative than interviews, I can’t imagine hiring for or accepting a long-term job without one.
Trials are most useful when you have the least information about someone, so I expect removing them to lead to more inner-ring dynamics and less hiring of unconnected people.
EA also has an admirable norm of paying for trials, which no one does for interviews.
The impression I get from the interview paradigm vs work trial paradigm is: so much of today’s civilization is less than 100 years old, and really big transformations happen during each decade. The introduction of work trials is one of those things.