Do you agree?

Key Takeaways

whether they come from a small startup the Unicorn or a public company they all sort of look the same because there's been so much funding to all these companies every company's been acting like they're Google with Google margins meaning a lot of engineering support a lot of design support a lot of research support lots of analysts around and actually seem pretty ill-prepared for a real startup or even a public company with some uncertainty around it like Eventbrite so you start getting these weird responses in the interview process you ask them to solve a problem and they'd say things like I can't even begin to come up with Solutions until I see all the data and talk to customers and I'm like yeah I get that that's something you would do if you took the job but like you don't have the data you can't talk to customers make a decision now like what would you do I want to see how creative you are I want to see how much you're intuiting about the real problem solution and they can't really answer and then you know my follow-up which I don't ask what I really want to ask is like so when's the last time you used your brain versus follow the process someone else designed at your company because like I want the former not the last