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Not mentioned enough: watch out for engineers (or any hires) who will take zero interest in helping the business succeed. You can try and hire for brains and e

• stackedinserter 1y ago
  > watch out for engineers (or any hires) who will take zero interest in helping the business succeed To my experience, 80% of software developers are like this. May be each 5th bothers to ask "what are we building and for whom?"
• Jensson 1y ago
  Many engineers want to deliver good products, not many care about the bottom line of the business. So instead of wanting them to care about your money, try to make money out of good products and engineers will happily take money to help you deliver that. This does mean that when engineers have to choose between company making more money or a better product for users they will pick the users almost every time, that isn't a bad thing, just try to work with that rather than say such engineers are unhireable.
  • creer 1y ago
    > Many engineers want to deliver good products Yes and that's a great start. > they will pick the users almost every time Empire building is very common (and other nuisances). SOME engineers will pick the users, yes. Thankfully. But many others do not care one bit about the users. Empire building is certainly not about caring about the users. Are empire builders still hireable? Unfortunately they seem to do great at interviews.