Thread by @till_carlos

You probably heard of @LeilaHormozi already, who is currently pushing out a lot of content together with her husband Alex.

I wish I had that information when I started hiring developers.

4 pieces of Leila advice + how it would have kept me from not doing these mistakes.

/1 “Likeness blinds a person”. I met a developer from the baltic countries in 2021 and asked him to build a crawler for me.

I liked him. He was entrepreneurial, I felt understood.

He did his own thing, focused on what was fun, instead of what worked. I lost 1 month of work.

/2 “You cannot ignore red flags”.

Relatable: I kept working with someone who already spoke bad about his last employer and how he had no problems doing things on the side.

That guy logged hour without actually working. It took me weeks to fix the code after him.

/3 “Hire for potential”

Luckily I haven’t made this mistake much. Everytime I hire someone I try to see the person who this #dev will become, not necessarily who they are right now.

I failed a couple of times with people who didn’t advance as fast as they should, though.

/4 “Don’t hire from the same pool of people.”. I almost failed at that; almost hired all in one country.

My mentor stepped in and told me: “What if you find great a dev from India. What are you going to do? Better go all remote, all in English”.

That advice alone was gold.

Those are the most important points. I probably watch everything the Hormozis publish, but if you want the best video on hiring, check out this one:

What do YOU think? Did you step into any of these hiring failures?

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