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Re:Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires by SubuSS on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @04:11PM (#7026664)
To address that, as the article mentions - Bar raisers interview in another part of the company. They can't bar raise for their own team.

And in a 110k employee company, to think one extra hire will obsolete you is extreme paranoia. You would rather hire smart folks and increase the company value.

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Re:Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires by vladimirralev on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @05:02PM (#7027062)
The negative selection rule applies transitively. It's not just one extra hire, these bar raisers hire 100s of people. Increasing the company value matters only if you own a stake in it that is big enough to offset the risk. And last but not least, in the context of software engineering and monekysphere(location) the population drops to less than a 1-2K people, not 110K.

It's a double-edged sword, if you hire smart people but demand them to act stupid, they will implode the company.

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