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It's more expensive to make a bad hire than to not hire someone and move a bit slower.
by kamarg 5y ago
It's more expensive to make a bad hire than to not hire someone and move a bit slower.
- skeeter2020 5y agowhile this is true, maybe they should work on how they assess candidates instead of continually complaining about how there are none.
- kkdaemas 5y agoSo... they double-down on a poor proxy of effectiveness on the job?
- lanstin 5y agoLeet code is neither sufficient or necessary to writing brilliant software. Your statement is true but Google, being mostly people cut from the same cloth, has group think about these issues. On the other hand, that monolithic culture is probably what has limited their success and kept them from being a more harmful monopoly.
- mech422 5y agogoogle admitted years ago, it didn't help.. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/google-finally-admits-that-its-infamous-brainteasers-were-completely-useless-for-hiring/277053/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/google-...
- fshbbdssbbgdd 5y agoGoogle found that riddles didn’t help, so they stopped asking them. They didn’t find the same for coding questions.
- mech422 5y agoYet :-P I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar article about leet code...
- marcosdumay 5y agoThere are two problems with this phrase, one is that it shouldn't. Really, if somebody a bit worse goes way into the negative value for you and you are a large company, you have some procedural problem that should be fixed. Long-time employees also have bad moments, and you should be able to survive those. The second problem is that the onus is on you on making sure those bad interviews decrease the odds if hiring bad people, instead of increasing them or being irrelevant. Without that evidence, this is a non-argument.
- smnplk 5y agoWhy not train a bad hire ?
- dagw 5y agoTraining a 'bad' hire requires taking 'good' employee out of circulation for a while and, depending on what way they are bad, might not lead to anything anyway.
- dagw 5y agoI want to add to this that in many cases getting many "bad hires" can also be symptom of bad management or bad workplace environment.