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The goal is clear, but how do you motivate "bar raisers" to work against themselves? If they hire smarter people than themselves they will be made obsolete. If
by vladimirralev 13y ago
The goal is clear, but how do you motivate "bar raisers" to work against themselves? If they hire smarter people than themselves they will be made obsolete. If you are not smart enough to see that you will be replaced by someone who will and the next iteration will correct the problem. It's a system that always converges to a "shrinking, but reasonable and politically correct cap on the performance".
- SubuSS 13y agoTo address that, as the article mentions - Bar raisers interview in another part of the company. They can't bar raise for their own team. And in a 110k employee company, to think one extra hire will obsolete you is extreme paranoia. You would rather hire smart folks and increase the company value.
- vladimirralev 13y agoThe negative selection rule applies transitively. It's not just one extra hire, these bar raisers hire 100s of people. Increasing the company value matters only if you own a stake in it that is big enough to offset the risk. And last but not least, in the context of software engineering and monekysphere(location) the population drops to less than a 1-2K people, not 110K. It's a double-edged sword, if you hire smart people but demand them to act stupid, they will implode the company.