The best people I’ve hired never showed up through a one-way video interview.
You know who does?
People who tolerate low-trust systems.
Here’s what one-way interviews really signal and why your best candidates are walking away.
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I don’t know the full context of this tweet, love the take overall, but 75-80 interviews for 1 hire is an issue.
Top of funnel needs to be reassessed. Sounds like you’re throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks.
The expensive time wasted oozing from this tweet gives me the ick.
If you want elite talent:
– Build a process that earns trust early
– Show up like it matters
– Respect their time like you respect their output
The best don’t need your job.
But you might need them.
Fix your funnel.
If your hiring process dehumanizes people before they even join…
Why are you shocked when your culture doesn’t scale?
High-output people don’t want a job.
They want a team.
They want someone to fight with.
But you’ve already ghosted them.
The art of hunger is dying in modern society
Everyone wants “balance”
Everyone wants “wellness”
Everyone wants “alignment”
Know what nobody wants?
To go f***ing hungry
To be obsessed
To be psychotically committed to a mission that no one claps for yet
We’re raising a generation of dopamine dolls
Swipe left. Swipe right.
Easy pleasure. Easy quit.
But zero bite
You know what real hunger looks like?
It looks like losing friends, missing parties, late nights, early mornings
It’s ugly. It’s gritty. It’s praying for one more rep when your legs are shaking like a baby deer
Hunger doesn’t ask for permission.
It hunts
It bleeds
It eats what it kills
The art of hunger is vanishing
But not in my house
Not in my company
Not in my tribe
We eat last, but we eat everything.