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Past a certain hiring rate the marginal value of another engineer falls towards nothing, because training and interviewing consume the engineers you already have.

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hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

S-curves and diminishing returns

What Will Larson actually said

  1. Will Larson Engineering executive who has led infrastructure…
    this is where the oft raised concern that hiring is slowing us down comes from: at high enough rates, the marginal added value of hiring gets very slow, especially if your training process is weak.

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