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Hazards of Hiring
It’s hard to hire well at a new startup. Things can be chaotic, there’s not a lot of process, and decisions are made impromptu often by the founder. Yet making a bad hire early on can be disastrous, and slow things down.
I’m here to argue it’s one of the first things that deserves a lightweight process within a startup,... See more
andrew chenx.comEven if you have a candidate that would be brilliant at doing your particular task, but wouldn’t be very good in another team, that’s a No Hire. In software, things change so often and so rapidly that you need people that can succeed at just about any programming task that you throw at them.
Joel Spolsky • The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)
There’s lots of well-intentioned advice out there about the risks if a business takes off and there isn’t a solid foundation to stand on. But at the same time, it's no surprise that startup leaders see words like "optimizing headcount through capacity planning models" and file it away as unnecessary bureaucracy that’s more befitting of the “BigCo”... See more