Episode 494: Am I interviewing all wrong and leaving old team chats

This episode addresses listener questions on navigating hiring processes and team dynamics. The first question explores how to handle intuitive rejections of candidates when reasons are hard to articulate, advising the listener to trust their gut but also seek to identify specific concerns. The hosts share personal experiences with high rejection rates and the importance of clear signals in hiring. The second question concerns the etiquette of staying in a previous team's chat channels after an internal transfer. The advice leans towards proactively setting boundaries, communicating intentions to the old team, and focusing attention on the new team to avoid divided loyalties and attention bottlenecks.