Re:What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco
by arkades on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:56PM
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Those sentences were not disconnected. They were part of one thought, joined by a “but”, indicating that one modified the other in a qualifying manner.
>We’ve spent less than $1000 on hiring, but I’ve had coffees or breakfasts with probably hundreds of candidates. Measured by hours, recruiting is one of our largest investments
Reads as: “we committed a small amount of resource X, BUT we spent a lot of resource Y.”
They didn’t miss the fact that they were burning resources. They stated it explicitly.
>We’ve spent less than $1000 on hiring, but I’ve had coffees or breakfasts with probably hundreds of candidates. Measured by hours, recruiting is one of our largest investments
Reads as: “we committed a small amount of resource X, BUT we spent a lot of resource Y.”
They didn’t miss the fact that they were burning resources. They stated it explicitly.