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Re:Types of People Startups Should Hire, but Don’t by sidlls on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:22PM (#16652374)
There is a lot of risk of long term employees entrenching bad practices by leveraging their political clout due to seniority. In some ways that's worse than the scenario you describe.
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Re:Types of People Startups Should Hire, but Don’t by x1798DE on Thursday March 22, 2018 @06:50PM (#16653459)
Shouldn't this argue for everyone having long tenures, since it's unlikely you'll actively fire competent employees just because they started at their job too long and got too well trusted.

Having a few long term employees and a bunch of short term ones is the worst case scenario, since it only accentuates the disparity in company-specific reputation and clout.

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