How the CEO of this $2.5 billion tech company hires without asking many questions

A lot of tech companies like to throw oddball questions during job interviews, but Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke follows a much easier approach.

He simply asks about the job applicant's life story.

"Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those," Lütke said in an interview with the NY Times' Adam Bryant.

He said the goal is to find out if the person's an optimist who sees opportunity everywhere, without having to explicitly ask the question.

And Lütke's hiring philosophy seems to be working. Shopify had more than $205 million in revenue last year, nearly 4 times what it had two years ago, and its stock is up more than 20% over the past year.

Read the full interview here>>

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