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Best case: they want to hire people who don’t like red tape and just want to get stuff done, people who thrive on little to no oversight Worst case: they want
by awb 4y ago
Best case: they want to hire people who don’t like red tape and just want to get stuff done, people who thrive on little to no oversight
Worst case: they want to hire people that will work endless hours to meet arbitrary deadlines
- lucb1e 4y agoThat's quite a wide range, but sounds about right. OP, we need you to apply and find out, for science!
- Bilal_io 4y agoI assume OP asked because of the Flexport job ad on HN (currently #19) which says "looking for gritty people". Apply and let us know :D
- theturtletalks 4y agoSomeone on the marketing team has been watching Hard Knocks
- robertn702 4y agoI think the wide range is appropriate given that the thread is trying to extrapolate an entire company's culture from a single word in a job posting title. It's up for interpretation, but I think the message the company is trying to get across is that their culture is not like that portrayed in the recent LinkedIn employee TikTok videos. https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/linkedin-employee-reignites-work-perks-debate-in-viral-tiktok/ https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/linkedin-employee-reignites-wo...
- akamaka 4y agoOne thing is for sure: they aren’t going to hire someone with potential and invest in developing them up.
- danielheath 4y agoNot everyone has the skillset required to do that, and in a small team you may not have anyone with that skillset.
- busterarm 4y agoI"m mad at myself for seeing the CEO of one of my former employers pushing the book Grit constantly, seeing the above behavior and not putting two and two together for months...
- jokethrowaway 4y agoThat's perfectly reasonable, many companies are not in a position where they can afford (or are able) to grow someone up. I see way more juniors hired than companies can afford, and then people wonder why nothing gets done with "so many developers". Each junior absorb capacity from more senior employees. It's purely a business choice whether you hire someone to grow up or not.
- jmeister 4y agoPrecisely the opposite. Usually "grit" means they're willing to hire hustlers who are eager to pick up new skills than established entitled slackers.