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I'm going to second this. If you hire mediocre people without enough work, you'll waste money, it's true, but consider Google. They hire brilliant people, and t
by danudey 16y ago
I'm going to second this. If you hire mediocre people without enough work, you'll waste money, it's true, but consider Google. They hire brilliant people, and through their 20% time they end up with amazing things (I think Gmail and Maps are two examples).
Now imagine what an excellent employee could do with 100% time and support from the rest of your organization.
- tptacek 16y agoHere's one strong possibility: noodle, get bored, then quit. Consider the adverse selection problem here. People who can do valuable things with "100% time"? They're inherently valuable. Since they usually need to be pretty smart to be that valuable, they know they're valuable. Therefore: they are probably not looking for a W2 position as a base of operations. Lots of people, many of them very smart, will salivate over the idea of a 100% self-directed R&D position. But smart or not, most of those people are not going to do well in that role, because: see last paragraph.