![]() Other times the hiring manager wants to shift the culture to one they find familiar (a cultural cousin to The Grand Migration anti-pattern). I’ve also seen some hiring managers who simply don’t know how to operate in a structured hiring process, for example struggling with closing calls, and consequently decide to avoid it. Sometimes the hiring manager is desperate: they must hire someone as quickly as possible. I’ve seen this happen for a number of different reasons. The situation is different in larger companies, where they do have the resources to run a more structured playbook, but the hiring manager decides to rely on their network instead. ![]() Overall, I think that most startups default to this strategy not because they love it, but simply because they have few other available options. It’s also easier to convince friends to join since early companies don’t have much evidence that they’re going to be successful. There are no dedicated recruiters, and often not even a team to conduct a full interview loop. In small startups, the flying wedge is common because they lack the team to run the scaled playbook. These are concerns that the wedge doesn’t worry itself with. While they do track hiring velocity and offer acceptance rate, they also measure themselves on representation in their workforce, and the candidates’ successes at the company after accepting. Most scaled companies operate around a structured hiring funnel with dedicated recruiters, well-defined interviews, documented rubrics, and trained interviewers. This playbook stands at stark odds with the typical scaled company’s approach. If you wanted a less abstract description, you might just call it “hiring friends” although I’ve seen folks hire friends without committing to the full wedge. While the flying wedge isn’t relevant in modern warfare, it is a surprisingly common phenomenon in the modern workforce, and I’ve seen folks run this playbook at pretty much every company I’ve worked at. In all cases, it describes a small entry point that expands the deeper it gets. “Flying wedge” has been used to describe an American football play and an early fighter jet formation, but its first usage came from a Greek and Roman military formation where soliders formed in a triangular wedge to penetrate an opposing formation. One of my teammates–one who had joined the team through the more traditional route of interviewing–described this pattern as the flying wedge. (In his defense, that’s because the product was canceled shortly after he joined, although to his discredit he did continue to publicly refer to himself as the product’s Chief Architect.) ![]() A third previous colleague reached out to our Director, and without a single interview we’d soon hired a new Chief Architect who would ultimately never write or read a technical specification about our product, nor contribute a single line of code. Instead, our new manager brought over one of his previous colleagues. We didn’t run a hiring process, do interviews, or consider candidates on the existing team. That new manager soon decided he needed a tech lead on his team. Instead, our Director brought on a colleague he’d worked with before. We didn’t run a hiring process, or even do interviews. The model also features pad printed Goodyear drag slicks, two push bar and parachute mounting options, a new engine intake scoop and accurate decals! It all comes wrapped in vintage-style illustrated packaging and includes a bonus collector card with historic photos and specifications of this short-lived, but very memorable pioneering dragster.When I worked at Yahoo!, our team needed another engineering manager. This exclusive version features an all-new nose section with separate wing, plus an authentic newly-tooled wedge body (different from the Flying Wedge) with all the details of the 1:1 car. An ALL-NEW 5-piece body replicating Snake’s Hot Wheels and Coca-Cola sponsored car has been freshly tooled. AMT 1049 1:25 Coca-Cola Don “Snake” Prudhomme Wedge Dragster (Hot Wheels)\nCan you believe it? The Kats at AMT have created an exciting kit of Don “The Snake” Prudhomme’s Hot Wheels Wedge Dragster.
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