Hiring signal: junior hires who closed the loop matter more than credentials
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-19
A hiring manager shares his top criterion for junior hires: whether they've completed a "closed loop" — spotting a small problem, delivering something for someone in a space they didn't previously understand, and getting verified by that person, ideally through payment. He says credentials and raw horsepower turned out to be secondary, and this single signal has had huge predictive power.
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