This is a failure in your hiring process as well. How are you vetting your candidates? Are there gaps in your process that are allowing people who are a bad fit

This is a failure in your hiring process as well. How are you vetting your candidates? Are there gaps in your process that are allowing people who are a bad fit through? Where I work, we had a PhD leave within 6 months. She was not able to deal with the lack of structure. Frankly, neither can I, but my motivations are a little different from hers. The team leadership could have done better in focusing on specific deliverables and letting her gain confidence through small victories before leading her down an open ended death march with few tangible criteria for success.