I’ve been told that I hire well. My team is respected, even envied, for its skillset and professionalism. As a result, I’m often asked to interview people for other managers. And while I like being viewed as having some mystical sense of people, I’m no better at picking someone from a resume and a 20-minute interview than anyone else.
To prove I’m far from perfect, let’s review some of the amazingly bad choices I’ve made over the years:
• A technologist I hired once blogged confidential material he obtained after he was let go. A kind soul—and another winner of the “Information Security Lifetime Achievement Award”—had let him in and given him a USB stick to extract the data, since this ex-employee had forgotten to bring his own.
