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You can tell if someone is coming up to speed within the 60 to 90 days associated with most contract to hire jobs. What you can't tell is if they'll pass that
by lief79 17y ago
You can tell if someone is coming up to speed within the 60 to 90 days associated with most contract to hire jobs. What you can't tell is if they'll pass that 90 day mark, or if that is actually their peak.
- Calamitous 17y agoTrue, but 3 or 4 wasted 90-day trials is a man-year's worth of wasted development time (not to mention the damage trail a string of unqualified programmers will leave through your codebase).
- aaronblohowiak 17y ago"not to mention the damage trail a string of unqualified programmers will leave through your codebase" In my experience, code reviews don't take too much time, make code quality more consistent, increase knowledge-share, and lower defect rates.
- praptak 17y agoYou also have to take into account the fact that the new team members always drain some time from the existing ones. They will always have some problems requiring assistance from more experienced folks, no amount of docs can prevent that. Mythical man-month and that.