It depends on how badly you need it. This matters in both directions, but it is a lot more relevant when picking a good place to work: if you can't pay rent ne

It depends on how badly you need it. This matters in both directions, but it is a lot more relevant when picking a good place to work: if you can't pay rent next month, you'll probably take a bad gig. In the hiring direction, "how badly you need it?" is usually not as time-sensitive since adding people to a team effectively lowers productivity at first. However, if for some reason you are trying to grow a team by an order of magnitude, you "need it" pretty badly, so to speak.