Here are some of the problems I had with previous employees that tighter hiring filters would have prevented. Now that my mindset is "don't hire the wrong perso

Here are some of the problems I had with previous employees that tighter hiring filters would have prevented. Now that my mindset is "don't hire the wrong person" instead of "hire someone", I don't have these problems. - Developer who only worked when being directly monitored. Every feature he worked on was seriously late. - Sysadmin who had good technical skills but was scared to give anyone bad news until it was so bad the project was in serious danger. - Developer who stayed stuck at the same junior skill level for four years because he never learned from his mistakes. - Manager who was too timid to hold his directs accountable, which both decreased team performance and demoralized the team members who cared about their jobs. I was able to help two of them grow out of these problems, but it took a lot of work. I failed with the other two and fired them, but only after they had caused a lot of damage to productivity and morale.