{"id":917101,"date":"2025-03-26T11:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=917101"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:03:38","slug":"snapchat-ceo-shares-the-presentation-test-he-has-for-news-hires-on-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/26\/snapchat-ceo-shares-the-presentation-test-he-has-for-news-hires-on-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat CEO shares the \u2018presentation test\u2019 he has for news hires on Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has a controversial approach to onboarding new employees: deliberately setting them up to fail. In a recent podcast interview, Spiegel revealed that new designers at Snapchat are required to pitch a brand-new idea on their first day, with no prior context or preparation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have no context for what the company is working on, how on earth are you supposed to come up with a great idea? I mean, it&#8217;s almost impossible,&#8221; Spiegel admitted on The Diary of a CEO podcast. Despite the seemingly harsh approach, the tech billionaire believes this method is crucial for fostering innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has a controversial approach to onboarding new employees: deliberately setting them up to fail. In a recent podcast interview, Spiegel revealed that new designers at Snapchat are required to pitch a brand-new idea on their first day, with no prior context or preparation. &#8220;When you have no context for what the company is working on, how on earth are you supposed to come up with a great idea? I mean, it&#8217;s almost impossible,&#8221; Spiegel admitted on The Diary of a CEO podcast. Despite the seemingly harsh approach, the tech billionaire believes this method is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}