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At a large technology company with its own software stack it takes several months before a new hire isn’t a net-negative to the team they join. And it will be m
by dodobirdlord 7y ago
At a large technology company with its own software stack it takes several months before a new hire isn’t a net-negative to the team they join. And it will be months after that before they reach full productivity. A bad hire is an extremely expensive mistake.
- sytelus 7y agoA bad hires are expensive mistake if you can't get rid of them until some artificial annual event. While I understand onboarding complexities, my experience is that the teams/companies which hasn't create good automated process so new hire can commit their first change within 2-days are big red flag (this was insisted upon by Zuck extensively at Facebook scale). I would also argue that culture of hire/replace team members in agile manner would help enforce this process more naturally and vice versa.
- joshuamorton 7y agoBeing able to make a change, and being able to make a change without handholding are two different things. > hire/replace team members in agile manner would help enforce this process more naturally and vice versa Places where this happens are normally considered very high stress and competitive.
- s1t5 7y ago> I would also argue that culture of hire/replace team members in agile manner would help enforce this process more naturally and vice versa. You're arguing in favour of high turnover - that can't be good neither for the company nor for the employees.
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