Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020
by dodobirdlord on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:28AM
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At a large technology company with its own software stack it takes several months before a new hire isn’t a net-negative to the team they join. And it will be months after that before they reach full productivity. A bad hire is an extremely expensive mistake.
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Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020
by sytelus on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:35AM
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A bad hires are expensive mistake if you can't get rid of them until some artificial annual event. While I understand onboarding complexities, my experience is that the teams/companies which hasn't create good automated process so new hire can commit their first change within 2-days are big red flag (this was insisted upon by Zuck extensively at Facebook scale). I would also argue that culture of hire/replace team members in agile manner would help enforce this process more naturally and vice versa.
Re:Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020
by joshuamorton on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:37AM
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Being able to make a change, and being able to make a change without handholding are two different things.
> hire/replace team members in agile manner would help enforce this process more naturally and vice versa
Places where this happens are normally considered very high stress and competitive.
> I would also argue that culture of hire/replace team members in agile manner would help enforce this process more naturally and vice versa.
You're arguing in favour of high turnover - that can't be good neither for the company nor for the employees.