> Most hiring mistakes are bad matching, not bad hiring. The right person was brought on and put in the wrong place. So the correct solution is to pivot: help the person find a transfer to a more appropriate team.
Maybe at google. But objectively bad hires are not uncommon in general.
In "objectively bad", I'm talking about competence.
I've met 5 times as many unethical people as incapable people. Easily. The unethical people should be fired once found out, but that's a given. The problem is that unethical people are usually impossible to spot until after they've screwed you.
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> Most hiring mistakes are bad matching, not bad hiring. The right person was brought on and put in the wrong place. So the correct solution is to pivot: help the person find a transfer to a more appropriate team.
Maybe at google. But objectively bad hires are not uncommon in general.
In "objectively bad", I'm talking about competence.
I've met 5 times as many unethical people as incapable people. Easily. The unethical people should be fired once found out, but that's a given. The problem is that unethical people are usually impossible to spot until after they've screwed you.