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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by MaysonL on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @08:58PM (#9696742)
Bad hires can be fired. Bad rejections poison the well for hiring the good candidates who never apply because of hearing about all the bad rejections.
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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by Silhouette on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:56PM (#9697001)
Bad hires can be fired.

But the cost and other effects of doing so vary significantly depending on where you are. Most of the US may have at-will employment, but much of the rest of the world does not.

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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by derefr on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @10:17PM (#9697069)
But the US is the place where the "It's better to reject a good candidate than hire a bad candidate" mantra comes from! European companies practice it, but they do it because they're forced to, and they don't preach it like a gospel. The US does it without any need to do it, and thinks they're gaining some sort of advantage in the process.
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