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It's Crazy How Much Money a Startup Can Waste on Bad Hires
- Bahamut 13y agoSome of the points are good, but I challenge the 3 make-or-break assertions. As a developer, I care about 1) Competitive salary, 2) Good co-workers who understand dev and care for others, 3) And good top level management who do right by their employees I don't think this is too much to ask for. I have no problem enduring rough spots like crunch time, but it needs to be counterbalanced appropriately and things planned out as best as possible. Too many companies get #1 & #3 wrong.
- notacoward 13y agoNew site, old content. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7215196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7215196 Also flagged. This guy's practically spamming us to get pageviews.
- jefflinwood 13y agoThis is an interesting article, but I question hiring people that you fire after 4-6 weeks - to me, the whole hiring process at this company is way off. Out of 19 hires, 6 were bad hires, and had to be let go or quit on their own after 4-6 weeks. For some reason, the company thought they were good enough to hire, possibly leaving stable jobs with other companies for better opportunities, and this turned out to not work. Now they have a pretty big stain on their resumes - a 6 week (full-time) job doesn't look good. With respects to the 1 hour commute - did the company consider remote working at all?