I see a lot of this at my day job. We've had positions open for over a year and somehow nobody makes it past the phone screen stage. The few that do make it to on-site interviews, we reject for one reason or another. Usually because they're okay but not great. We of course want great.

Sometimes we find a unicorn and want to make an offer. They get hired by FAANG after our interview and before we send the offer. Wonderful.

Contrast that to my side hustle where I sometimes hire folks to help out with coding so I can focus on other stuff.

Go into 1 or 2 Slack/Telegram groups "Hey anyone need work?"

Exchange 5 texts with 3 people.

"Okay here's a project, how much?"

Pick person. Get job done. If I like the way it goes, they get more jobs later.

Whole process from search to hire takes 1 week.

But at the dayjob we're a funded startup so we gotta be choosy and picky and make life all sorts of hard in the name of I'm not even sure what. We wouldn't even consider a part-time contractor because commitment is worth more than getting the job done.

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