Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers
by stcredzero on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:33PM
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It seems to be something that is clearly inevitable. We've been trying for decades to construct the perfect interview process to weed out people, and while we've had some fair success, people always manage to slip their way through.
Much as successful security involves "defense in depth," I suspect that good HR involves much the same. It's not reasonable to build a strategy on some sort of ultimate impenetrable barrier.
Most organizations have two actual levels of membership that often exist outside of the formal rules. The reason it works this way, is to sequester the "net negative" members and protect the contribution of the "net positive" members. This must be what Valve is aiming for with it's hyper "flat" lack of structure.
Much as successful security involves "defense in depth," I suspect that good HR involves much the same. It's not reasonable to build a strategy on some sort of ultimate impenetrable barrier.
Most organizations have two actual levels of membership that often exist outside of the formal rules. The reason it works this way, is to sequester the "net negative" members and protect the contribution of the "net positive" members. This must be what Valve is aiming for with it's hyper "flat" lack of structure.