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When you have a large enough number of qualified candidates, you look for any reason you can to justify why you picked one person over everyone else.
by JohnBooty 5y ago
When you have a large enough number of qualified
candidates, you look for any reason you can to
justify why you picked one person over everyone else.
Yes. Also, a lot of companies operate under the principle of, "It's better to turn away ten good engineers than hire one bad one."
- mcv 5y agoThat only makes sense if you have more than enough engineers already. If not, it would be better to hire 10 good engineers and the 1 bad one, and fire the bad or or at least not extend their contract. Then you'll still have the 10 good ones. And doing actual work is a much better test of an engineer's abilities than any interview process is capable of.
- zhdc1 5y ago> Yes. Also, a lot of companies operate under the principle of, "It's better to turn away ten good engineers than hire one bad one." I wonder how successful they are at this. There is no way to have a 100% hiring success rate, and the benefits from hiring ten good engineers should strongly outweigh the impact of hiring one bad one.