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by Nostromos 950 days ago
A company I worked at did a stint of CTO approval for all hires after a period of significant scaling and while it was a PITA, it definitely helped calibrate recruiting, eng, pm, and design to what leadership was looking for. It also exposed leadership to the types of issues we were facing daily with hiring. It does slow things down (actually the CTO I'm referring to was awesome and turned things around in no less than 24 hours, avg of 4 hrs), BUT its a useful tool when its time-bounded and there's a commitment to quick turnaround.

Coinbase will be fine but I'll bet money they kill the cognitive testing after a year or two (or a lawsuit).

Anybody know what the internal definition for talent density is? The article is a bit vague on whether thats a reference to locale or having a lot of talented people on your team/in your company.

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They seem to mean talent density in the sense of the amount of talent per person.