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It's very possible they could have turned into something great and we were cutting losses too soon. That said, I have fairly high expectations and expect people
by dreyfan 10y ago
It's very possible they could have turned into something great and we were cutting losses too soon. That said, I have fairly high expectations and expect people to be motivated, tenacious and smart. We have such a broad spectrum of what we do (in a nutshell: infosec and data mining), it's difficult to simply train people for the myriad of scenarios they might encounter. This year I'll be stepping up my recruiting from the infosec community directly, up to now I've focused on polyglot devs with a background in security & web.
- toadi 10y agoAren't most people who are motivated, tenacious and smart trying to start something on their own?
- dreyfan 10y agoYep. Exactly the issue. I want people with similar traits as myself and all I find are people who just want a job with a steady paycheck.
- rifung 10y ago> all I find are people who just want a job with a steady paycheck In fairness, I think besides those who are well enough off to not need to work, a paycheck is the main reason people work. I'm just a junior engineer who admittedly doesn't know anything so take this with a grain of salt, but firing people because they are not similar to you seems bad for the company. After all, if they do good work in a timely manner, shouldn't that be more than sufficient? If you only hire people who are like you, then it seems like you'd get a serious lack of diversity too, even though the benefits of diversity are well studied. Then again, you're the one running a successful business while I'm just a random guy browsing HN when I should be working!
- gr33nman 10y agoBeing honest with yourself, would an employee exactly like you really be an ideal employee? Would they dedicate all of their productive hours toward your business or might they be spending some energy working toward starting a business on their own?
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- metaphorm 10y agocan you clarify what your specific issues have been? I think many of the readers on this thread, myself included, find it hard to believe that you've churned 10 employees and are having trouble recruiting and yet its THEM that's the problem and not you.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoWhat's the ballpark of how much you're paying these people? How forward are you to candidates about that number? If the answer is too little for either, that might be the problem.
- dreyfan 10y agoDepending on experience but $90-$140k salary and 10-20% profit sharing ($50k-$200k roughly) on projects which they contributed.