candidate assessment Quotes

A candidate’s command of foreign policy acts as a proxy for assessing broader leadership abilities.

Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.

I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.

You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.

Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate?

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

In order to proceed to an election which was pleasing to God and which took account of individual merits, the princes called in some of the household of each of the great leaders [candidates], made them take a solemn oath, and questioned them about the conduct and habits of their lords … This was done so that the electors might thus be more fully and more faithfully informed of the merits of the candidates. Those who were later very closely questioned under the required oath by the electors were forced to confess in secret the vices of their lords and likewise to enumerate their virtues, so that it might be made plain just what sort of men their lords were.

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

Good candidates can arrive at the binary search tree as the right path in a few minutes, and then take 10-15 minutes working through the rest of the problem and the other roadblocks I toss out. But occasionally I get a candidate who 'intuitively understands' trees and can visualize the problem I'm presenting.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

Those confrontations, viewed by tens of millions of voters, were a radical innovation which allowed the electorate a unique opportunity to take measure of the candidates under fire

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

I look at each nominee. If they suck, I vote against them. If they're worthy, I vote for them.

A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.

Another reform, involves new screening tests for all applicants that include, and this is so important, especially if you get the right people. And we will get the right people.