> Do unconventional things like offering to meet candidates on weekends.
> Each candidate must pass the “Sunday test.” If this person were alone in the office on a Sunday, would that make you more likely to come in and want to work with them?
YIKES If your business is built on people working on the weekends, you’re not prioritizing being productive during the week!
Overall, this sounds like a paid-for flattery piece that is trying to resonate with the try-hard “hustler” crowd.
This, and other “advice” in the article, is all terrible. When it starts to approach being not crazily, it is completely ambiguous. The specific recommendations are all counter-productive. I would venture a guess that stripe’s success did not come from these things.
I've done this before. It's been situations where there's a tricky problem and it's critical to the business
A colleague was working on some critical control code that involves math I didn't understand.
He was committed to figuring it out. I suspect his motivations included 'why isn't this working?', 'I want to deliver this critical piece of the product', and 'I'll be thinking about it all weekend anyway'.
I came into the office to use the gym and found him working there; we got to talking about the problem. Long story short, my workout was about 90 minutes longer than normal, and he delivered the feature on monday.
I totally agree that the company culture shouldn't have this vibe check. However, I do acknowledge that sometimes we, as part of our human code, just CANT rest until we figure it out. IMO a nice middle ground would be getting paid a little extra to solve it on sunday :)
> Each candidate must pass the “Sunday test.” If this person were alone in the office on a Sunday, would that make you more likely to come in and want to work with them?
YIKES If your business is built on people working on the weekends, you’re not prioritizing being productive during the week!
Overall, this sounds like a paid-for flattery piece that is trying to resonate with the try-hard “hustler” crowd.
This, and other “advice” in the article, is all terrible. When it starts to approach being not crazily, it is completely ambiguous. The specific recommendations are all counter-productive. I would venture a guess that stripe’s success did not come from these things.