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> gave that person a chance and then gave up. Nobody "gives a chance" for a year. Either the problems were discovered during the probation period, or they were

• ThrowawayR2 7y ago
  You'd be surprised. A common scenario is that manager A hires a bad employee but doesn't want to admit their mistake. Then they move on to another position and the new manager B has to go through the lengthy PIP and termination process.
  • trickstra 7y ago
    Yes, but say 4 times in a row? And 3 times without discovering how bad the person is during the interview? That says something about the prediction power of an interview...
• majkinetor 7y ago
  That is simply not true in my experience. Its very hard to know if somebody is valuable within 6m unless they are completely bonk or completely great and majority of people is somewhere in between. Most of the folks I personally ditched were working for company for about 1y. You still may not want to kick a person if he fails because you might recognize that he could be better at a different type of job (frontend -> automatic tests -> ci/cd ?). Notably, I didn't have success with this type of shifting so far but sample size is still small, maybe its just a failure bias. Nevertheless, in my mind this is the right thing to do, to offer another chance at something different, rather then kick people out on inability to adapt to particular problem space.