“We put in a lot of effort to detect signals in someone's application that predict performance… we found that ... political activism as a teen predicts drive and agency”

Prof G Markets · This EU Firm Made Billions Buying Up Forgotten Tech

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Hire slightly better people than they could afford by using a data-driven hiring process that scores applicants on many signals (GPA, university selectivity, teenage political activism, email tone, etc.)

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