Ethan Evans

Another super interesting case, we were debating an executive candidate or vice president, and Amazon had this idea of what was called a bar raiser.

So a bar raiser was someone who wasn't

going to work with the candidate they sat outside the team and their job because they weren't invested in the hire they didn't have a hole to fill they could sit outside it and really evaluate the process well the team was debating was unsure uh and i googled the guy and the first result was him bad mouthing his previous company you know and but again this is digging beyond the interview yeah

In the interview, he seemed like a well-spoken person and we were getting close to hiring.

And then when I just said, hey, why don't we stop for a minute, look at this, like everybody read this link, he was done.

So another rule, you asked what you can do to really, you talked about gossip.

Well, gossiping about your company.

Whenever I speak about things Amazon doesn't do well, I'm very diplomatic about it.

Because Amazon made my life.

And I understand that in a company that size, there have been bad managers because there's literally a million managers in the company.

I'm sorry, 100,000 because there's a million employees.

You're going to have some bad eggs and they've done some awful things.

But overall, that company is miraculous.

And they're also transparent.

This is our hardworking culture.

If that's not you, please move on.

Yeah.

Enormous.

um a player mentality for you to say like this culture just wasn't the right culture for me yep like and that's exactly there'd be a lot of people who'd be like cody how can you speak well of a place that cut 20 what a brutal you know capitalistic awful blah blah blah and trying to lure you in to say oh yeah they were awful no that was who they were it was well known yeah

Is that great behavior?