Day 0
From a former Amazon Bar Raiser Trainer
Make measurably stronger hires.
In 6 months.
Objectively assess candidates’ fit and avoid costly hiring mistakes that can exceed $100K per wrong hire.
How the program works
A structured 6-day engagement built on the same behavioral interviewing methodology Nick developed as one of Amazon’s Bar Raiser Trainers and applied as a Microsoft As-Appropriate interviewer, adapted so your company owns it permanently.
Day 1
Culture foundation and importance
Define the core competencies your best people share. These become the measurable standard every candidate is assessed against going forward.Day 2
Evidence-based interview best practices
Train your team on behavioral interview techniques refined across 20+ years at Microsoft and Amazon. Establish a measurable hiring bar grounded in real performance data.Day 3
Training top performers as Bar Raisers
Develop behavioral interview questions calibrated to your competencies. Certify your standout employees to conduct and evaluate interviews the way Amazon does.Day 4
Live interview loops with external candidates
Collect real interview performance data by running live loops with external candidates, supervised and coached in real time.Day 5
Debriefs and hire/no-hire decisions
Evaluate candidate fit against the standards you have built. Practice the structured debrief process that leads to confident, defensible hiring decisions.Day 6
Leadership review and staged rollout
Review results with your leadership team and design a staged rollout plan. The program becomes self-sustaining. Your team owns the bar.About Nick
Nick has 20+ years of experience at Microsoft and Amazon as a Technical Principal in Product Management and Business Development.
At Microsoft, Nick built new Xbox First Party games from scratch and hired teams to launch these game products and then scale them. Separately, Nick was also a Microsoft “As-Appropriate” interviewer who was responsible for key hiring decisions.
At Amazon, Nick was one of four people who personally pitched Jeff Bezos until he let Nick co-found Amazon Game Studios, where Amazon eventually deployed $1B+ by acquiring and growing the game-streaming platform Twitch, developing a 3D game engine, and building hit internal games.
At Amazon, Nick was also a Trainer of Amazon Bar Raisers, who certifies other standout Amazon employees to become Bar Raisers. Bar Raisers in turn decide, based on behavioral-interview methods, whether the company should hire a job candidate.
In 2018, Nick left Amazon and eventually started Bar Raiser where we show fast-growing companies how to make measurably stronger hires in ~6 months. As a result, these companies: 1) save hundreds of thousands of dollars for each wrong hire they avoid, and 2) transform their business by shipping key product milestones more quickly.
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