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engineers on his team who are seasoned interviewers can conduct 12-16 interviews per month By my back of the conventional-wisdom calculations, each engineer is
by rhizome 8y ago
engineers on his team who are seasoned interviewers can conduct 12-16 interviews per month
By my back of the conventional-wisdom calculations, each engineer is losing about a day's worth of productivity every week.
- BeetleB 8y agoThat's 20% for recruiting and hiring. What is the cost of a bad hire, though?
- ryandrake 8y agoI’d love to see a company actually quantify this, instead of just assuming it is large and letting the question paralyze them into being excessively conservative and picky. I’ve been in a situation where we needed somebody right now to backfill someone who left, and the company agonized over who to hire, taking over a month and blowing through dozens of candidates, ensuring that the product schedule slipped and losing us an untold amount of revenue.
- mycelium 8y agoAnd to pile on the anecdotes, I've been in the exact opposite situation where we needed somebody right now to handle a new requirement, and we hired someone "pretty good" after already taking longer than the rest of management was happy with to hire. They ended up being pretty weak, having trouble shipping, eating large amounts of onboarding and management attention, as well as other engineers patching up their work to make it serviceable. They were just good enough to make it seem worth the slog too, so they sucked a bunch of extra labor out of everyone else for the better part of a year before they left. In retrospect, I made the right decision with what I knew in the moment — but with 20/20 hindsight I should have waited.