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>>Never mind the specifics of the selection process, Silicon Valley's risk-adverse approach to hiring is baffling. I think it makes perfect sense. A bad develo
by enraged_camel 10y ago
>>Never mind the specifics of the selection process, Silicon Valley's risk-adverse approach to hiring is baffling.
I think it makes perfect sense. A bad developer hire is not just unproductive. They also tend to be a burden on their coworkers and reduce their productivity by asking trivial questions and writing buggy and/or hard to maintain code.
With startups the risk is even greater. Think about it: the odds are already stacked against you. Why would you take even more risk by randomly hiring developers? Sure, you can fire them, but by then it may be too late.
- Apocryphon 10y agoI've read that rationale, and it makes sense, but it almost makes it sound like the organization is humoring a bad dev without oversight for months upon months until they suddenly realize their inability. Maybe they should spend more time actually running their company instead of interviewing candidates all day.
- aanm1988 10y agoSo fire them. Sorry, didn't work out. GTFO. The situation now is not better. People have cargo-culted a strategy that is based entirely on having enough applicants that you can afford to have a stupid false-negative rate. It's also easily gamed, so you have to keep trying to find new puzzles for people to solve.