Rarely.* If we think we have a good shot of hiring someone through a closed hiring round, we typically wouldn’t open a public round. I think the only exception to this would be a situation where we’re inventing a new role that’s relatively unique to GiveWell. In cases like that, we might have one or more potential internal candidates, but we’ll likely feel uncalibrated on what strong candidates look like because we lack comparators for the role. So, we might still launch a public round so that we can obtain more comparators and avoid missing strong external talent.
Rarely.* If we think we have a good shot of hiring someone through a closed hiring round, we typically wouldn’t open a public round. I think the only exception to this would be a situation where we’re inventing a new role that’s relatively unique to GiveWell. In cases like that, we might have one or more potential internal candidates, but we’ll likely feel uncalibrated on what strong candidates look like because we lack comparators for the role. So, we might still launch a public round so that we can obtain more comparators and avoid missing strong external talent.
*can’t speak for all orgs