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“Many of our successful hires in the past have come through the community of people who engage with our work.”

GiveWell, unsigned blog post 28 May 2020 GiveWell's plans for 2020 (The GiveWell Blog) archived copy

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Many of GiveWell's successful past hires came through the community of people who engage with its work.

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Hiring source data is internal to GiveWell.

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GiveWell, “Many of GiveWell's successful past hires came through the community of people who engage with its work.” (said 28 May 2020). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_29a72f415642, method 0.1.0+7831dd9d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_29a72f415642

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