Short answer: Sam Nadler shows a full stack interview summary covering background, current role and tech stack, with templates for hiring, one-on-ones and stand-ups. Jordan Metzner says he also uses it for sales introductory calls.
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Sam Nadler [20:06]: Yeah. So as you can see, here's a
Jordan Metzner [20:09]: Have you been taking Granola notes right now?
Sam Nadler [20:12]: I am not. Because I said provide I primarily use it for interviews. But as you can see, this was, Monday. I had multiple interviews, three interviews that day. The Friday before, I think I had five interviews. If I click on this Nicholas candidate, I didn't change the template here. Just I changed it back actually, but, I had this full stack interview. It kinda goes through background and experience, current role, and challenges. Now if I this was the output immediately after our interview, and then I can change to hiring. They also have kind of these one on one templates. As you can see, this candidate was at MercadoLibre for quite some time, then transitioned, fairly front end heavy, goes through his tech stack. And I didn't include notes. Usually, I include my own personal notes in the ATS and not directly on the notepad, but that's just how I do things. Like, you can jump in here and include your own notes. And, yeah, it's been a really helpful tool.
Sam Nadler [21:14]: As you can see in the different templates, there's obviously the auto. If you're on a one on one with your direct or your manager, great to keep that kind of source of what you talked about, customer discovery, general stand ups. I'm sure there's tons and tons of templates. But overall, for me personally, it's just really allowed me to free up my time and be more engaged in our interviews without frantically taking notes throughout the whole thing. And if you multiply that on three, four, five interviews a day, it's been a pretty big game changer.
Jordan Metzner [21:49]: That's pretty cool. Have you tried it for non interviews or used it in other types of meetings?
Sam Nadler [21:55]: Occasionally. But, my main use case, there that yes. I would say maybe 10% of the time I'm using it for a non interview use case, and it is helpful just to remember kind of what was happening and share that post meeting. Or, if there are multiple topics discussed, it's it's really helpful. What about you? How have you used it? Similar use case?
Jordan Metzner [22:21]: Yeah. I mean, I use it for interviews for sure. I like it for sales introductory calls, so you can kinda learn about the client and not have to focus on taking notes as much and just can focus more on having a more engaging conversation. So it's kinda like having an assistant in the room with you so that you can focus on other parts of the meeting and get deeper without having to kind of take your own notes. And then I like that it gives it back to you later. Calendar integration is pretty sexy. Push notifications help too because it just, like, helps you join the meeting. Overall, like, yeah, it's a great tool. It's pretty inexpensive, and it's kinda, like, fun to use, I think. Sometimes I even, like, miss what somebody says, and I can easily just, like, kinda scroll back up without having to disrupt them and hear, like, their last statement again. So Mhmm. Yeah. I love Granola. It's been a, great hint for us. And, yeah, it seems like, AI notes is definitely, know, just the early stages as well.
