With my current employer, hiring the "most enthusiastic" people instead of the finding people with the necessary skills backfired hard. We're now stuck with se

With my current employer, hiring the "most enthusiastic" people instead of the finding people with the necessary skills backfired hard. We're now stuck with serious inefficiencies in the organisation and people that under local labor protection laws are hard to get rid of and replace holding key positions. This may be easy to overcome in a larger organisation in which the underskilled enthusiasts are surrounded by more senior appropriately skilled coworkers, but in a smaller company it's a disaster.