> A common estimate is that the hiring process costs a year of salary. If the company wants to make hiring incredibly difficult (too many companies do), I can

> A common estimate is that the hiring process costs a year of salary. If the company wants to make hiring incredibly difficult (too many companies do), I can see it costing that much. So stop doing that. Having been in many startups doing a lot of hiring, if each hire cost a year of salary we'd have burned through out funding many times over and yet we didn't. So it doesn't have to cost that much. Keep it simple, hire fast.