Re:Guide to scaling engineering organizations
by rizzom5000 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @10:56AM
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Maybe, but hire and fire is also a great way to show the team that you don't know what you're doing as a hiring manager; not to mention how firing a team member, who may be incompetent but still well-liked, affects morale. Then, there is the problem where you fail to fire when you should. To me, this is just not a good way to build an effective team.
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Re:Guide to scaling engineering organizations
by ppeetteerr on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:59AM
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No one is saying you should hire and fire a ton of people, only that rejecting good candidates for most companies is not possible given how difficult it is to find them. Talk to any recruiter and they will tell you that finding good (not great, just good) candidates is often a struggle.
Re:Guide to scaling engineering organizations
by inimino on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:39PM
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> hire and fire is also a great way to show the team that you don't know what you're doing
It's an expensive (painful) signal that you actually do know what you need to do and are capable of it.