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In your opinion, is there anything a company can do to keep or improve the average level of employees as the company grows, or is it just inevitable?
by idoh 16y ago
In your opinion, is there anything a company can do to keep or improve the average level of employees as the company grows, or is it just inevitable?
- staktrace 16y agoInteresting question. I think it's possible to maintain and even improve the average level of intelligence of employees, but past a certain size it's so ridiculously difficult as to be infeasible, practically speaking. Also, I'm not convinced that it's in the company's best interests, but I guess that depends on what the goal of the company is. If, like most companies, it is to make money, then having too many smart people could be a liability; after a certain point you want to hire people for reliability and teamwork rather than individual intelligence. Even if the company has some other goal, I would say it's probably easier to try to keep the company small and automate as much work as possible than it is to keep hiring really smart people.
- numbchuckskills 16y agoGoogle employs the Lake Wobegon strategy: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg... "only hire candidates who are above the mean of your current employees"