[alexmingoia]

My wife is a chef. When she applies for a job, she goes to the restaurant for what’s called a staging. A staging is a practice shift, where you make some dishes with the other chefs you’ll be working with, and you’re evaluated by the su chef or executive chef. Is the restaurant owner in charge of hiring chefs? No. Are the investors involved in hiring? No. Is the hostess involved in hiring? No. The chef in charge of the kitchen hires kitchen staff.

Can you imagine how dysfunctional a restaurant kitchen would be if the waiters hired the chefs? Or if the manager who has no cooking experience managed the kitchen?

An engineer should be in charge of your engineering team, and they should be in charge of hiring the people working under them.