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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.

Drawn from what Will Larson said

Subjecthiring

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

Interesting
A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Will Larson

    Engineering executive who has led infrastructure and…

    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.

    Where this was said

    ↗Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.lethain.com

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