🏴☠️ What is more expensive, hiring the wrong candidate or letting the best one slip through?
Come and find out the answer to this conundrum and more as Jason Gallaugher, VP of Engineering at Vidyard, drops by the Cabin for a chat with your favorite Captain.
Also in this episode. Did you know that if you look deep enough inside yourself, you'll find more than a touch of imposter syndrome?
Well, if you can't find any, you're probably a tad delusional 😛
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Episode Timeline & Highlights
[00:00] - Preview & Intro
[01:40] – Introducing Jason Gallaugher, VP Engineering at Vidyard
[03:09] – Cabin gossip
[05:28] – Working at Blackberry circa 2009
[11:45] – Experience scaling up startups, best practices, strategies and lessons to share with founders
[22:20] – A job interview is a two-way sales process
[35:44] – What is more expensive, hiring the wrong candidate or letting the best one slip through?
[38:17] – Working with headhunters
[40:35] – The value of a solid screening process by headhunters
[45:00] – Parting words of wisdom - we all have a touch of imposter syndrome