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The CEO of Automattic on Holding Auditions to Build a Strong Team
Matt Mullenweg · Harvard Business Review Paid Intermediate
Mullenweg's HBR first-person account of switching Automattic to paid tryouts after charming interviews kept misfiring. It is the more polished, citable version of the audition idea, with numbers on how many tryouts convert to hires. It sits behind a metered paywall, but it is worth one of your free reads.
- Interviews rewarded charm, not job performance.
- Paid tryouts on real work fixed the signal.
- Roughly 40 percent of tryouts led to hires.
