It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.
I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.
We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.
If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.
When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.
