5/22/2023 0 Comments Book working backwardsNeither the hiring manager nor a recruiter can fulfil this role, and the person taking on this role will have to go through dedicated training. The term “bar raiser” refers to both the hiring process and, famously, a group of individuals who are central to that process.Īs a Bar Raiser, your role is to make sure that the person that gets hired is better than the existing team members in at least one area. “Working Backwards” covers several Amazon ways of working practices that the company has become well known for:īar Raiser – To avoid the risk of personal bias and hiring urgency, Amazon has created its “Bar Raiser Program” to create a scalable, repeatable, formal process for consistently making successful hiring decisions. Reading “Working Backwards” by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr therefore provided a number of deja vu moments. Since then I’ve come across a number of valuable practices that have out of Amazon, and the thinking behind them. Nine years ago I write a post about product management at Amazon. It feels like a lifetime ago when I first wrote about product management practices at Amazon.
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