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Re:Brief thoughts on getting hired as a senior coder by ryandrake on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:56PM (#20577783)
> The simple fact is that it's WAY WAY worse to hire a bad fit than it is to let TEN great devs walk away.

This simple statement sums up so much of what is broken about tech hiring. Everyone prides themselves on how they take smart risks and how entrepreneurial they are, and how they “fail fast” and “explore.” Yet when it comes to hiring, all of a sudden it’s “OMG we have to be super conservative! We can’t fire people and one bad hire could ruin us! We must reject 99% of candidates because Risk.” What happened to being bold and risk-taking?

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Re:Brief thoughts on getting hired as a senior coder by larrik on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:20AM (#20583453)
In theory that sounds great.

But, good/great devs only want to work with good/great devs. You get a bad fit in there that manages to stick around, and your good/great devs start to leave. Then you end up with either only lesser devs or a bunch of devs that hate each other.

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