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> if adding a particular engineer to the team increases the company’s value by 10% overnight Btw, how do you prove that? For me hiring seems more difficult tha

> if adding a particular engineer to the team increases the company’s value by 10% overnight Btw, how do you prove that? For me hiring seems more difficult than that, you start to grasp the value of an employee after 6 months or so.

dannyr 11y ago
Take the case of Instagram, they hired several Android Engineers. They added 1 million new users on the 1st day the app was released.
- jerguismi 11y ago
  Yeah, take this one company and generalize it, makes perfect sense. There are bazillion of companies and only one instagram.
  - dannyr 11y ago
    Wow. Pretty hostile. Where did I generalize? I was just giving an example that you can consider.
mrkurt 11y ago
You don't with certainty, you make informed guesses (just like employees do with options). Vesting solves this problem, though, most people get 1 year cliffs which is effectively a 12 month window to make sure the person works out.
a3voices 11y ago
Well if the engineer is checking in working code to features that the company's management prioritizes, then that engineer is definitely adding value. Otherwise it is management's fault for poorly prioritizing.