Mark Zuckerberg's Simple Rule for Hiring

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Mark Zuckerberg explains his hiring philosophy, stating that he only hires people he would be willing to work for in an alternate universe. This approach helps balance the pressure to build strong teams without compromising on quality.

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00:00I will only hire someone to work for me if I could see myself working for them.

00:04Not necessarily that I want them to run the company because I like my job, but in an alternate

00:08universe, if it was their company and I was looking to go work somewhere, would I be happy

00:12to work for them? And I think that that's a helpful heuristic to help balance. And when

00:16you're building something like this, there's a lot of pressure to, you want to build out

00:19your teams because there's a lot of stuff that you need to get done. And everyone always

00:22says don't compromise on quality, but there's this question of, okay, how do you know that

00:25someone is good enough? And I think my answer is, I would want someone to be on my team

00:30if I would work for them.

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