What Ben Kuhn thinks about hiring
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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1 dated position, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Ben Kuhn has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSomeone who can't name what they'd do differently is unlikely to be good at improving over time.
Their wordsif the person responds to "what would you do differently" with "nothing," or with non-actionable vague platitudes, it's a sign they may not be great at figuring out how to get better at things over time.
↗How I build and run behavioral interviewsbenkuhn.net 2nd of 3 in this piece