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Hire people who give a shit.
Saved by sari and
The team is everything. That moment of bringing people in sets the ceiling of possibility. The new hire is as serious to the health of the team as an organ transplant is to the health of the body. You want the best people you can find, and the ones who will contribute most positively to the team.
Whenever I interview a job candidate, their first question is often, “What’s the culture like?” I used to struggle to answer; where do you even start? Tomes have been written on organizational culture. Now, though, I think most of the time people are really asking these questions: How much autonomy will I have? Will I feel included? Will it be safe
... See moreAnother thing to consider is that one of the most important factors for success of a company is the quality of its engineers. The best way to lower development costs is to hire great engineers: they don’t cost much more than mediocre engineers but have tremendously higher productivity. However, the best engineers care deeply about good design. If y
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