> The beauty of this approach is that you don't lower your hiring bar. You don't lower the bar but you do put a locking mechanism on your recruiting pipeline t

> The beauty of this approach is that you don't lower your hiring bar. You don't lower the bar but you do put a locking mechanism on your recruiting pipeline that reduces your hiring throughout in an already supply constrained environment and you impose greater hiring costs to make sure you always have a candidate. Now that may still be a profitable thing to do, but you can pretend there are no costs and downsides. What you need to do it look at all the pros and cons and balance those considerations to find out what is most profitable. Anything that isn't profit maximizing over the time scale we are optimizing for is also to the detriment of the company.