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I remember reading a job description for one of the YCombinator startups. For any new hire, they offered $2k to the hire in the first 6 months if he/she decide
by eric-hu 15y ago
I remember reading a job description for one of the YCombinator startups. For any new hire, they offered $2k to the hire in the first 6 months if he/she decided it wasn't a good fit. I forget the specific company, but this sounds like a really good way to "assess" someone's personality (i.e. let the employee do the assessing and reward them for recognizing a strong disparity.
I was pretty turned off by the article of this post. I feel like "vision" and "survival of the fittest" go against what Google has been known for encouraging: 20% time for creative products. Sure, a select few have made successful products like gmail. Others have completed products that didn't take off. You can look at these developers as dead weight and cut them off, but there'll be backlash with the other developers. Who would want to explore a creative, risky idea when he can just spend more time on his main project?