-: I love most about my job, um I would say
just meeting people and finding talent.
We're in an industry where we're seeing, you know,
super talented, super creative people all the time,
and just getting to know somebody in an interview
and sort of making them comfortable
and representing our culture
and our sensibilities to those people.
Sort of the, I like to call myself the front doormat,
to try to give them a nice welcoming sense of how we are.
And just gettin' to know them and gettin' to understand them
and it's a little bit of a puzzle to really understand
their talents, their experience, and all that,
so that's a little bit of the challenge and the fun part.
And I'm usually partnering with, ya know,
one of the other senior people.
It's two heads are better than one,
and so we can compare notes afterwards and make sure
we have a good understanding of that person.
So that's my favorite, for sure.
The toughest part of my job is when
things aren't working out with an employee,
because we spend a lotta time, we're super people-focused,
you know, one our tag lines is humanity over vanity,
we really wanna take care of our people.
We wanna find great people and then we wanna help them,
we wanna keep great people.
We wanna keep them happy and growing in our company
and give 'em those opportunities and give 'em the guidance.
So when it's not working out,
that's when it gets really tough
and we have to figure out who's saying what
and are they getting the feedback they need?
And that's, for all of us, that's the latest thing
we've been workin' on, which is how do you give somebody
direct and honest feedback.
It's easy to say and it's super hard to do
and we're workin' on that as a company.