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How to Hire
@Som_Mohapatraarticlex
TL;DR. Hadrius hires on the ALGO framework — Ambition, Learning velocity, Grit, Ownership — and makes candidates audition instead of interview.
Takeaways
- Replace interviews with auditions: have sales candidates run a real Hadrius sales process, have engineers do live system design on an actual open problem.
- Grit is "axiomatic" at Series A: 5 days in office, long hours, and if work-life balance is top-3 priority, it's a no — even if you love them.
- Use a 3-point scale (Ehhh / Something here / Wow) to fight rating inflation; bar is ≥2 on all four ALGO traits with one or two 3s.
- The hardest coachability signal to detect: whether they actually incorporate feedback from peers and juniors, not just managers.