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I agree mostly but just want to add: If your entire company is going to fail from just one bad hire, you need to re-examine your processes. It's the nature of

I agree mostly but just want to add: If your entire company is going to fail from just one bad hire, you need to re-examine your processes. It's the nature of the game. Some people are more capable than others. Of course try to get the most capable people you can, but in between superstar and loser, there are a lot of people who can create more value than the total cost of hiring them. (counted in terms of compensation but also training time from other employees, botched tasks while they are learning the ropes, etc etc)

marcus 19y ago
When your company has hundreds of workers, you're right it isn't going to fail because of one bad hire, although one bad hire can lead to slow bozofication of your workforce, I know companies where you can quite accurately predict how many years ago a person was hired based on his competence (there are obviously exceptions but as a rule the better an employee is the earlier he was hired). But when your team is 2-5 people you just can't afford to hire people who have a relatively small positive net value you need the superstars or at least rock solid developers, anything else will hurt your startup. Productivity is diminished in large teams, so don't add a body to your count if isn't going to make a difference. Building a startup is hard enough don't hurt your chances by settling on anything less.