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by more_corn 1212 days ago
The whole best and brightest thing was 100% a phrase people tossed around there. The interviews are notoriously difficult. Because “we only hire the best”. But there’s a trap smart men fall into. Intelligence leads to success, success to arrogance, arrogance to error, error to failure. I don’t think it’s the rank and file you need to get rid of.