This post was originally published on Inside Q4, stories and lessons learned from the Q4 Inc. R&D team. Hiring is a flow, not a project. The requirement was extreme: hire 15 Product Managers (and one Director of Product) in the next year and a half. When I arrived at Q4 in October of 2021, we were entering a period of hyper-growth in Product Design, Engineering and Product Management. We had huge ambitions and needed to scale our team — fast.

I am very susceptible to this kind of bias. A bias towards potential as opposed to achievement