“ Sometimes a poorly performing team member was just a bad hiring choice. You politely let them go and work to improve your hiring process.” This is what I don

“ Sometimes a poorly performing team member was just a bad hiring choice. You politely let them go and work to improve your hiring process.” This is what I don’t get! If you’re convinced a certain percentage of your people should be pushed out, then you don’t trust your recruiting team! Maybe Amazons approach is to save money by hiring crappy recruiters, then fire the mishires. My own experience is that Amazon recruiters are more salespeople than conventional recruiters. But I can’t imagine organization repudiating a chunk of their workforce, and not asking “why do we keep getting so many crappy programmers.”