If you want to be the best, you have to get the best people. You just can't get there with the adequate or the ordinary. Athene's recruitment process features a series of intensive interviews with key managers, including Johnson, as well as potential peers. The company's Technical Advisory Board, a group of six PhD-level mathematicians and statisticians from universities and institutes around the world, often screens r sum s and conducts phone interviews with prospects. Employment, academic and criminal background checks are conducted on everyone.
Most prospective hires embrace the opportunity.
We've had people write poems and do martial arts demonstrations. We've had race car drivers and firefighters. Of course, sometimes people just stand and read their r sum s, and that tells us something about them too. They help retain the employees already there. Athene employees take the auditions seriously.