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Cursor’s final interview is a non-negotiable two-day onsite where they simulate solving real problems. This would be a recruiting team’s nightmare. CEO Michael Truell admitted the company has tried to get rid of it several times. But this strategy is so critical to hiring for talent density that Cursor...

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Brian still spends over two hours a day on recruiting and personally hires the top 200 people at Airbnb. I loved this idea of being in the flow of talent to find the best people: "Don't do searches. Build pipelines. I try to map out all the best people in the Valley. So let's say I need to hire really good engineers. I don't do searches. I just informationally meet the best engineers in the world. Every meeting, the job is to get the next meeting, meet someone else. The mistake people make when they hire. They go, "I need to hire a blank." So they hire a search firm. They give you 50 profiles, and you pick the best one. That is the wrong way to do it. The best way to do it is pipeline recruiting. You're constantly recruiting, you're constantly meeting people. in advance of searches. And all of it is referral based. The two ways to find out if people are good – is to start with the results and work backwards to the people. Find an ad you like and figure out who made that ad. Start with the results. Work backwards to people. Don't start with the resume. The other thing to do is just keep asking people to build your Rolodex. The moment I find somebody that's really good, I ask them who all the best people they know are. And I build these little mafias and they tell you who the other good people are. I am the co-hiring manager for the top 200 people in the company. This is very radical. A lot of CEOs think it's their job to hire their executive team, and their executive team hires their team. I think that is fatal. You always want to be marrying up, hiring people of the future. It should be like we're reaching. If you can hire them without my help, we're not reaching far enough. You want to hire the very best person you can."

Patrick OShaughnessy

317,097 views • 3 months ago

Sam Altman said something recently that most people skimmed and immediately forgot. That was a mistake. Altman: “If it’s me and X hundred GPUs, we can do the work of a whole software team.” Not twice as fast. Not three times as efficient. One person. One team’s output. Zero team. The entire architecture of the modern company was built to solve a single problem. Coordinating human labor. Org charts. Management layers. Hiring pipelines. Performance reviews. HR departments. Slack channels with forty people and no decisions. Every piece of corporate infrastructure exists because humans are slow, expensive, and need to be organized. Remove the coordination problem and the infrastructure collapses on contact. We spent two years debating whether AI makes workers more productive. That was the wrong debate entirely. 2x productivity is a raise. One person replacing an entire team is a structural extinction event. Altman: “You start to hear people say I’m able to do the work of a whole team with these tools.” This is not a productivity story. This is a headcount story. Every company on Earth is currently valued on the assumption that scaling output requires scaling people. That assumption is wrong. It was always wrong. We just never had the tool to prove it. The company that figures this out first does not get a competitive advantage. It gets an irreversible one. One operator. Hundreds of GPUs. The output of a team that no longer needs to exist. No salaries. No standups. No friction. Most people will read Altman’s words, nod, and scroll past. A small number will understand that something structural just shifted beneath them. They will build accordingly. The companies that define the next decade will not be the ones with the most people. They will be the ones with the fewest people who understood what compute replaced. For a hundred years, you needed more people to do more work. That was never a strategy. It was a constraint we mistook for a law. The org chart was a monument to human limitation. The limitation just vanished. And everything built on top of it is now standing on nothing.

Dustin

26,721 views • 4 months ago