[karmajunkie]

I've seen plenty of teams who didn't think they needed someone to evaluate what they're doing and just thought they needed someone churning out code.

If they'd had someone do the former, most of the time they'd not have needed the latter quite so much.

[havelhovel]

What's more likely: a team of equally experienced engineers is waiting on a new hire to identify and fix significant blind spots or a team just needs more bandwidth to get things done?

[karmajunkie]

in my experience, while teams are rarely “waiting around” for a new hire, it’s the outside perspective that makes the most significant improvements to process, tooling, and impact, and teams that resist the notion of blind spots that suffer from them the most.

but maybe that’s just me.