I interviewed every person we hired at
@Clay in my orgs until we passed 300 people.
We're scaling beyond that now, so our recruiting ops team built a system that keeps me involved in every hire.
We have a Slack channel called hiring-theses and I review it every day. Before we hire anyone, the hiring manager writes a hiring thesis about the candidate. It answers four questions:
1. Why should we hire this person?
2. What is one exceptional thing this candidate has accomplished in their career or otherwise?
3. What are the risks/concerns?
4. How will we support this person if they join?
A thesis draws on a deep dive interview into the candidate's whole story, behavioral interviews, scored feedback from every round, and thorough reference calls. The thesis also includes every piece of submitted interviewer feedback. When I review that feedback, I notice discrepancies, pieces of feedback from an interviewer that the hiring manager didn't address, or missing voices I want to hear from.
Then I approve, deny or discuss with the hiring team. I can't sit in every interview anymore, but I still read every thesis and every piece of feedback before someone joins Clay.
Hopefully this is helpful to other teams scaling past the point where a founder can meet every candidate. Let me know if you have any questions!