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Why that is surprising? Mediocre people in leadership for sure will hire people worse than themselves for obvious reasons: 1. Much less likely to challenge the
by mrjin 4y ago
Why that is surprising? Mediocre people in leadership for sure will hire people worse than themselves for obvious reasons:
1. Much less likely to challenge them.
2. Numbers look much better.
3. When things went south, there would be someone to blame.
- 3np 4y agoMore commonly, 4. They are not great at assessing and contextualizing skill and experience
- thrown_22 4y agoBecause I've seen it even in places where the guy doing the hiring was the major share holder. He flat out told me that no one would pay a salary like what I was asking. It went downhill from there and he didn't take it well when I told him I was making more than that now and I figured this was going to be a relaxing year to wind down from my current position, hence why I was asking for less.