What is Project Moneyball at Box and what did it reveal about hiring?
Replied byKenny mendes
Chief People Officer at Superhuman
Niche: AI
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
Project Moneyball was a people analytics initiative where we analyzed which debated candidate traits actually predicted success on the job. It revealed that hiring is full of bad decisions because interviewers consistently overread the wrong signals and fail to evaluate candidates objectively.
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