Before you walk in
Priya
Talking about A second engineer on the Nova team · AI · embedded with Nova
Two minutes of reading, so you're not asking Priya something we already know the answer to. You're not rating them today — you're finding out whether the things this need asks for have actually turned up.
What this need asks for
Has worked inside someone else's organisation before
Nobody has written anything down about this. It's yours to find out — ask for an example, not an opinion.
Will interview the client's staff before building anything
We've heard something already
“She described sitting with warehouse staff for two weeks before proposing anything. That's our whole method, and nobody told her to say it.”
Brendan wrote this down, first conversation
Worth going one level deeper rather than asking it cold — ask Priya for the time it actually happened.
Free from the start of next month
We've heard something already
“Available from the start of next quarter”
a plain fact on their record
Worth going one level deeper rather than asking it cold — ask Priya for the time it actually happened.
This is a comparison between what the need asks for and what people wrote down. It isn't a verdict on Priya, and nothing here says how they did.
What Priya told us they want
She'd rather be embedded with one client for a long stretch than rotate every quarter.
When you come out
Write down what Priya actually said, while you still have the words. Not what you concluded about them — the quote. Priya can read it, and so can everyone deciding.