Adam Maguire

So he was talking about a time when they had spent a year looking for a chief financial officer.

They thought they had the right candidate.

They were good on paper.

Everyone in the interview panel liked them.

But then it turned out they had been really rude to the taxi driver.

And he knew that because he said he pays the taxi drivers to tell them how people behave in the car.

The reckoning, as you say, being that if you're rude to the driver...

you're probably going to be rude to colleagues and especially to people who work below you.

And, you know, it reminds me of that kind of dating tip, you know, that if someone is nice, but then they're rude to the waiter, that's probably a red flag of what kind of person they actually are.

You do have to wonder, though, how consistent they are.

You know, how much are they paying the taxi drivers?

What if someone walks or drives themselves to the interview?

How do they get assessed?

And all it probably achieves is maybe payback.

Let people know that once you apply, you could be getting evaluated at any stage.

And I'd say there's probably been a surge in the amount of taxi drivers that are getting tipped around New York at the moment.

People heading to interviews probably, you know, doling out just in case the taxi drivers do that.

No, and this kind of, you know, everything is a test mentality seems to have become quite popular at some CEOs.

So Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan says he's more interested in how people treat their teller staff and their security guards than what's on the CV.

He's looking for street smarts, but not clear if he's actively actually getting the feedback.