I don't think that's an unreasonable phrase. "Hire slow, fire fast" is a well known strategy.

Fully agree here. Firing is absolutely much more important to the health of the organization than hiring. Firing is cutting on the error opposite to continuing living with it.

That sounds very counter productive, unless you're in a business where there are no room for errors, e.g. managing a squad of hitmen

Do you mind if you disagree.

I`ll give you an example. We had a team of devs and I guy I know has joined us as a QA team lead. They guy was really cool, very comfy to be around with etc and etc. But problem was that he never really got the job done done.

I made a mistake of trying to help him for way too long, trying to figure out better tasks, better approaches.

At the end of the day I fired him. And guess what, this showed him he finally had to start doing something that noone would be puching him towards to - he started a little firm that ourganized mountaint trips.

this works well as long as you can set clear performance expectations.

If you don't know exactly what you're hiring for...

Very food comment!

When I was saying about immediate firing I never meant you should be an idiot and have no idea why you even hired.

You can make fast actions and fire fast only if you know why are you doing that which is a result of why and what for you even hired someone.

Not at top companies. Only at companies hiring sub par talent.

Reportedly that's how Valve operates, and they're the top of the top, at least in terms of compensation.

I think there is a lot of legal limitations and rules in different countries. But I am talking just about a team and the wish to part with someone.

I am sure there are a looot of top companies that are hard and stricts and fire fast. At the end of the day does not matter what the reason is, it is all about performance of today and future.

Search my name on LinkedIn and decide for yourself. You dont sound like a person ever hiring or firing in your life to me.