""When I was being vetted for vice president, I had a 9-hour interview with a lawyer going through everything," Harris recalled recently on the Diary of a CEO podcast. "My taxes, my professional record, everything.""
""Having been in the position of both being the interviewer and the interviewee, it really as much as anything comes down to chemistry," Harris explained. "Because by the time that that interview is happening, it's usually narrowed down to about three people. So all the vetting has been done." "Then it's about sitting down and just deciding, because it is going to be a partnership," she continued. "And it has to be where you feel that you can trust someone, you could work with them, you're doing it for the same reasons.""
""Whenever she wins or loses, she gets 'gold medal depression'""
Job-seekers face prolonged, sometimes opaque hiring processes, and prominent figures undergo similar ordeals. Sundar Pichai completed nine interviews and faced a trick question to secure a senior product role at Google. Kamala Harris endured a nine-hour vetting session with a lawyer that reviewed taxes and her professional record. Harris served as San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general, and U.S. senator, establishing historic firsts. Final selection often hinges on chemistry and partnership fit after heavy vetting narrows candidates to roughly three. Harris reports feeling "gold medal depression" whether outcomes are wins or losses.
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