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I have quit jobs because we kept bad hires too long and then didn’t fight to keep good hires from walking away. I think grooming and retaining talent is just as
by mberning 9y ago
I have quit jobs because we kept bad hires too long and then didn’t fight to keep good hires from walking away. I think grooming and retaining talent is just as important as providing technical leadership. You need to be strong in both areas.
- joallard 9y agoI've seen exactly this in a local well-regarded startup. Incompetent hires with problematic behaviors thriving and being protected, and competent hires being unprotected, not cared about, and almost pushed out. They would hire almost anyone, and then not take active action in maintaining a healthy staff. Needless to say, it's not going very well over there, regardless of the CTO being quite technically proficient.
- ihsw2 9y agoIncompetent PMs can be an issue too, between inaccurate/incomplete feature planning and shoving their responsibilities onto unwitting developers. I'd argue that a great PM is worth as much as the much-vaunted 10x developers, if not worth much more.