{"id":36476,"date":"2025-10-25T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/sequoia-partner-jess-lee-shares-the-system-she-uses-to-evaluate-employees\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:51:49","slug":"sequoia-partner-jess-lee-shares-the-system-she-uses-to-evaluate-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/sequoia-partner-jess-lee-shares-the-system-she-uses-to-evaluate-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia partner Jess Lee shares the system she uses to evaluate employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68fbb088599d46a4ccc0ce9c?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Jess Lee\"\/><figcaption>Polyvore CEO Jess Lee<\/p>\n<p>Jess Lee \/ Polyvore<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Sequoia partner Jess Lee shared some tips for evaluating partners and employees.<\/li>\n<li>Lee said her system measures someone&#039;s emotional, intellectual, political, and judgmental ability.<\/li>\n<li>No one is good at all of them, she said, so it&#039;s all about finding people who complement each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The world&#039;s top leaders often say they can read people better than anyone else \u2014 a trait that has long intrigued psychologists and management experts.<\/p>\n<p>Some call it an art, others say it&#039;s a science.<\/p>\n<p>Sequoia partner Jess Lee \u2014 a Silicon Valley veteran who previously worked at Google and Yahoo, and founded the e-commerce company Polyvore, which Yahoo acquired for $200 million in 2015 \u2014 shared some of her secrets on a recent episode of &quot;The Library of Minds&quot; podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Lee said she now relies on a process to evaluate workers beyond quantifiable metrics, which she learned from her Sequoia colleague Shawn Maguire. He told her there are four components he uses to evaluate people&#039;s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s this framework of EQ and IQ, which everyone knows, emotional intelligence and intellectual intelligence,&quot; she said. &quot;Then he added PQ, political quotient, and JQ, judgment quotient.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>EQ, or emotional quotient, measures how good someone is with people one-on-one, she said. It measures emotional intelligence, social skills, and empathy. IQ, or intellectual quotient, measures someone&#039;s problem-solving skills and logic. These are both well-known metrics in business and other fields.<\/p>\n<p>PQ, or political quotient, meanwhile, measures how good someone is at interacting with systems of people that govern things, she said. The judgment quotient measures an individual&#039;s decision-making capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Lee said no one is good at all of these things. It&#039;s possible to have a high EQ but a low PQ within a given organization, she said. A person can be technically competent but struggle to assess where to apply their skills to maximize their long-term success.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I look for very spiky people who complement each other,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of what she learned about evaluating people came from her father, who worked for Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong tycoon whose net worth tops $41 billion, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Her father&#039;s work stories always revolved around people, Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He kind of taught me that all problems are people problems. All solutions are people problems,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Even now, the &quot;primary lens&quot; she uses to &quot;view the world, to figure out teams, to invest&quot; is through people, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyvore CEO Jess Lee Jess Lee \/ Polyvore Sequoia partner Jess Lee shared some tips for evaluating partners and employees. Lee said her system measures someone&#039;s emotional, intellectual, political, and judgmental ability. No one is good at all of them, she said, so it&#039;s all about finding people who complement each other. 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