{"id":43664,"date":"2023-10-20T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/the-gruelling-process-behind-how-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-hires-his-best-employees-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:15","slug":"the-gruelling-process-behind-how-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-hires-his-best-employees-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-gruelling-process-behind-how-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-hires-his-best-employees-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"The gruelling process behind how Uber CEO Travis Kalanick hires his best employees – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick personally interviewed a potential employee for more than 30 hours before eventually giving him the role of CTO of the $3 billion startup giant.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Geek Wire, Uber CTO Thuan Pham outlines the extraordinary lengths the founder goes to in order to ensure the company only brings the best employees on board.<\/p>\n

Pham says the interview was originally meant to only go for an hour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met with him and that one hour turned into two,\u201d Pham tells Geek Wire.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe invited me back for more talks and ended up interviewing me for 30 hours straight, one-on-one over two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair would discuss set topics across this time, debating back and forth before a conclusion was made.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt dawned on me afterward that he wasn\u2019t looking for someone that shared his view \u2013 he was looking for diversity of thought, someone who could challenge him and who he could challenge,\u201d Pham says.<\/p>\n

While conducting these extensive interviews, Kalanick was also gallivanting across the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how Travis does it,\u201d Pham says.<\/p>\n

These meetings continued until one Sunday morning when Kalanick abrubtly brought the debate to a halt.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just stopped \u2013 we hadn\u2019t finished all the topics \u2013 and said, \u2018I\u2019ve had enough. Let\u2019s talk offers\u2019,\u201d Pham says.<\/p>\n

Tham has now been in the role for more than three years now and says it has been as challenging as it has been rewarding.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the hardest job I\u2019ve ever had \u2013 but that\u2019s why it\u2019s the most fun jobs I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day I get to do new things and every day I feel like I\u2019m getting better in some way. And that\u2019s because of the gnarly problem we have to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pham says one of the biggest lessons he has taken out of his time at Uber is the importance of trusting your own instincts and taking risks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we grow this fast, we\u2019ll never do it perfectly every step of the way,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stumble, we fall; we make really big decisions and really small decisions, and some don\u2019t work out. I\u2019ve made big decisions that completely failed and we had to recover.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut with a company growing this fast, not making any decision might be an even bigger failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quicker you fail, the more you learn and the better you become if you get to survive and grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can read the full interview with Thuan Phan here.<\/p>\n

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