Bullshit Startup Experiences
> me: hi i'm here about the lead developer position<p>> CEO: cool man lets grab a couple beers<p>> me: (over beers) hi i'm here for the lead developer position<p>> CEO: yeah dude but are you any good at foosball?<p>> me: (over foosball) i'm here for the lead developer position<p>This is surprisingly common and not just for hiring technical roles. I find it especially odd when founders do it in the process of hiring their first few employees....it's like dude, you don't even have a culture yet, why do you care about culture fit?<p>It would be impossible to quantify but I wonder how many good ideas tackled by good founders never got off the ground because they were overly fixated on getting the first 10 hires EXACTLY right.