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>> Does it make more sense to just keep working your backlog or >> take time to get quality people on the team so you can double >> your velocity on your

>> Does it make more sense to just keep working your backlog or >> take time to get quality people on the team so you can double >> your velocity on your next sprint? Agree. A good hire can help you a lot, and a bad hire hurts orders of magnitude more than the time spent on an interview. Interview time has a very high ROI.

michaelt 14y ago
Interview time has a very high ROI. The author says she did about 100 phone screens or onsite interviews; and they lead to 2 hires 1 of whom quit. Seems to me how much profit there is in panning a river for gold depends on whether a river has much gold in it. And it sounds like she was panning a river that didn't have much gold in it. What would you say is your interview-to-hire ratio?
- kator 14y ago
  To be clear I've been arguing all along that this in an indication that higher up in the pipeline they must have quality issues. Each step of an interview is an INVESTMENT. First investment is the Recruiter's time (sorry but they get paid and SHOULD get paid to take this first step) Second investment is the screener (yup I'm looking at you Phone Screener and I do it all week long, suck it up and enjoy the ride) Third and MOST EXPENSIVE investment is the on-site, team interview, disrupting many people's lives and productivity including the CANDIDATE (blows my mind that NOBODY here seems to be on the side of the Candidate who is trying to find a new team and a incremental change in their career) Fourth and even more expensive is ON BOARDING Fifth and yet another expensive investment is ON GOING management and integration So let's think about this.. Where in the process do you want to spend time? Should you be upset that YOU PERSONALLY saved many hours your teams of wasted time? Or upset you spent 2 hours of your time? Answer this carefully.. Think slowly about this.. it's the deepest issue here.. And says a lot about who YOU are...
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- furyofantares 14y ago
  She got one hire that contributed 2000 hours before quitting and another one that's still contributing 2000 hours/year. This was the result 200 hours of her work and some number of hours of work from others.

michaelt 14y ago

Interview time has a very high ROI. The author says she did about 100 phone screens or onsite interviews; and they lead to 2 hires 1 of whom quit. Seems to me how much profit there is in panning a river for gold depends on whether a river has much gold in it. And it sounds like she was panning a river that didn't have much gold in it. What would you say is your interview-to-hire ratio?

kator 14y ago
To be clear I've been arguing all along that this in an indication that higher up in the pipeline they must have quality issues. Each step of an interview is an INVESTMENT. First investment is the Recruiter's time (sorry but they get paid and SHOULD get paid to take this first step) Second investment is the screener (yup I'm looking at you Phone Screener and I do it all week long, suck it up and enjoy the ride) Third and MOST EXPENSIVE investment is the on-site, team interview, disrupting many people's lives and productivity including the CANDIDATE (blows my mind that NOBODY here seems to be on the side of the Candidate who is trying to find a new team and a incremental change in their career) Fourth and even more expensive is ON BOARDING Fifth and yet another expensive investment is ON GOING management and integration So let's think about this.. Where in the process do you want to spend time? Should you be upset that YOU PERSONALLY saved many hours your teams of wasted time? Or upset you spent 2 hours of your time? Answer this carefully.. Think slowly about this.. it's the deepest issue here.. And says a lot about who YOU are...
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furyofantares 14y ago
She got one hire that contributed 2000 hours before quitting and another one that's still contributing 2000 hours/year. This was the result 200 hours of her work and some number of hours of work from others.