> Hiring a brain surgeon is high stakes. I don’t know a lot of software positions where it is true. Arguably it's not. But if I think I'm doing a guy a favou

> Hiring a brain surgeon is high stakes. I don’t know a lot of software positions where it is true. Arguably it's not. But if I think I'm doing a guy a favour by 'giving them a chance' and hiring them when they're marginal, and they quit a stable job and move across the country, then I fire them? In that case I didn't do them a favour by giving them a chance.