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by hnriot
4565 days ago
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This sounds like a really bad idea.You'll end up with a bunch of mediocre people and a few that carry all the weight. Soft skills are great in marketing, but in development, give me competent developers over ppt writers any day. |
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"Instead of interviewing everyone on the planet and trying to optimize, I set a goal to hire the first person who met all of my criteria."
If one of her criteria is "must be a competent developer", then she's going to get competent developers.
The kind of criteria she can easily compromise on are:
- Some kind of mythical perfect "cultural fit" (e.g., must like to have beer with co-workers after work and eat lunch with them every day).
- An exact match on salary requirements (instead of finding someone who will work for $100K or below, pay them their asking salary of $110K; time is money, and if you hire someone today, you'll get to market faster).
- Must know every single open source library you're using (if they know 5 out of 8, they can learn the other three faster than it would take you to find the "perfect candidate").
- Attended a fancy college and got a 4.0 GPA (if someone has a few years of work experience, that stuff doesn't matter much anymore).