How do I avoid hiring assholes at my company?

Re:How do I avoid hiring assholes at my company? by joezydeco on Saturday November 23, 2013 @10:06AM (#6786111)

Most people who work in tech end up working with some of the same people over and over again, and they bring each other into their companies.

Oh GOD that's a huge red flag for me. Because that clique will always have priority over your needs and career track. Not all of those people are brought with because they were super-competent and worked in complete psychic harmony with their peers. Sometimes people just need a parachute out of whatever company they were struggling in.

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Re:How do I avoid hiring assholes at my company? by michaelrwolfe1 on Saturday November 23, 2013 @10:57AM (#6786319)

Nepotisms and cliques are not good, and I'm not defending them - you should never recommend someone into a company unless you think they kick ass, and if you are a founder you should work very hard to keep the number of people who have worked together to a minority, otherwise the new folks will feel like outsiders.

But it certainly is the case that the kind of people you want to hire are the kind where anyone who has worked with that person would say, "I'd love to work with them again."

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