doesn’t matter if someone is local or remote—we still want to judge their work, not their résumé. A lot of companies base their judgments on work already done. We do some of that too. But what’s tricky about that is that work already done is hard to account for. Who really did the work? Was it solo? On a team? What limitations were in place? Did the work take way longer than it should have? Etc. The best way we’ve found to accurately judge work is to hire the person to do a little work before we take the plunge and hire them to do a lot of work. Call it “pre-hiring.” Pre-hiring takes the form
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