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A candidate that will earn a lot of money is not what you're looking for when hiring. You want someone who will do the work well and will help the company succ
by NateEag 7y ago
A candidate that will earn a lot of money is not what you're looking for when hiring.
You want someone who will do the work well and will help the company succeed.
Indeed, you could argue that a high earner is, all else being equal, something you should avoid selecting as a hiring manager.
- jdavis703 7y agoThis means the manager needs to correctly align employee incentives. For example pay sales people a commission or give employees shares. This is business school 101.
- NateEag 7y agoI do not believe a person's salary history gives you any useful information about their effectiveness as an employee. I have worked with people who had higher salaries than I did who were clearly much worse at the job (a backend architect at a past gig told me that UTF-8 supported only 256 characters, and refused to acknowledge it when I pointed out sources that showed he was wrong).
- krageon 7y agoAm I correct in reading this as you making the claim that your salary is not directly (or even at all) commensurate with your contribution to the company?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThe claim was only that hiring by previous income is not commensurate with contribution at the new job.
- eloff 7y agoSorry, I see how that can be confusing that I switched topics like that. I mean IQ is the best single measure predictor of success on the job. It's also strongly correlated with lifetime earnings. And it should surprise nobody that success on the job and lifetime earnings are very tightly coupled.