We hired for one job, every day, for a year. The biggest lesson on speed surpris
By George Barnett Reid 👀 · July 24, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
We hired for one job, every day, for a year. The biggest lesson on speed surprised even us.
For a year we did one deliberately narrow thing: hired for this single role, every day, nothing else. Doing the same job thousands of times showed us where the time actually leaks, and it is almost never the part you would guess.
The short version:
- 30 to 60 days, to 7 to 14
- 6 weeks of your time, to about 3 hours
- One interviewer doing 5 calls a day, to round-the-clock screening
- A gut call, to one bar nobody skips, 87% still in seat at 90 days
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