{"id":155371,"date":"2025-11-23T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155371\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:25:14","slug":"5-billion-ai-company-ceo-interviews-candidates-in-google-docs-says-in-my-experience-this-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155371\/","title":{"rendered":"$5 billion AI company CEO interviews candidates in Google Docs, says: &#8216;In my experience, this is\u2026 |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/google-docs.jpg\" alt=\"$5 billion AI company CEO interviews candidates in Google Docs, says: 'In my experience, this is\u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Winston Weinberg, CEO of $5 billion AI legal tech startup Harvey, has ditched traditional job interviews in favor of an unconventional approach: conducting candidate assessments asynchronously through Google Docs.&#8221;In my experience, this is the best way to separate good interviewers from good operators,&#8221; Weinberg told Business Insider, explaining that the shared document format reveals how candidates actually work versus how well they present themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Google To Invest $15 Billion On AI Hub In Visakhapatnam, CEO Sundar Pichai Speaks To PM Modi<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the &#8220;Access&#8221; podcast, Weinberg said the method exposes a critical hiring problem: &#8220;There are folks that are really good at talking and terrible at doing.&#8221; He&#8217;s found that candidates who excel at &#8220;presenting things&#8221; often &#8220;break down&#8221; when writing out responses to direct questions in real-time.The Google Doc interview involves quick writing samples and working through problem sets collaboratively. Going back-and-forth on challenges in the document serves as a &#8220;very good indicator of how well we&#8217;d work together,&#8221; Weinberg explained on the podcast.Harvey has used this technique for all recent executive hires among its approximately 350 employees. Since its 2022 founding, the company has raised over $500 million and now serves lawyers at eight of the 10 highest-grossing US law firms.Weinberg advocates starting interviews asynchronously because it mirrors actual work conditions. &#8220;With the reports that I work best with, it&#8217;s async,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Otherwise, we&#8217;re going to have 17 strategy meetings to do anything.&#8221;The approach addresses what he sees as a red flag: candidates who constantly request one-on-one strategy sessions rather than delivering results independently.As tech companies pursue &#8220;talent density&#8221;\u2014making teams smaller and more efficient\u2014unconventional interview methods are gaining traction. AI cheating tools have further disrupted traditional interviews, pushing some companies back to in-person assessments.Harvey&#8217;s document-based approach offers a middle ground: verifying candidates&#8217; abilities while maintaining the flexibility of remote hiring in an era where presentation skills can mask operational shortcomings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winston Weinberg, CEO of $5 billion AI legal tech startup Harvey, has ditched traditional job interviews in favor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,87649,218,219,87650,87653,87655,87654,87656,87652,46359,87651,61,60,80,87657],"class_list":["post-155371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-job-interviews","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asynchronous-interviews","tag-candidate-assessment-methods","tag-ceo-winston-weinberg","tag-executive-hiring-strategies","tag-google-docs","tag-google-docs-hiring","tag-harvey","tag-harvey-ai-legal-tech","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-winston-weinberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}