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Ask HN: Would you fire this developer?

A few months ago, our start-up hired a new developer. Unfortunately, he is not working out. He fits in poorly with the team for two basic reasons:* He is a weak contributor. He is neither proactive nor especially attentive to detail. He is slow -- slow to understand existing code, slow to write new code, slow to solve problems, slow to get things done. The quality of his work, once complete, is...

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