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> My best advice to a hiring manager is to check the reviews written by your future hires, you will have direct visibility into how they will perform in your organization and how toxic or emphatic they will be.

Brilliant. Have any hiring managers done this and uncovered red flags?

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> Have any hiring managers done this and uncovered red flags?

Yes. One of our juniors found a candidate's Yelp page. The level of awfulness on display there almost had me wondering if it was caricature.

(If you're a founder, this works for VCs, too.)

I will not be surprised if there is call for startup to build this exact thing :P

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