Past a certain hiring rate the marginal value of another engineer falls towards nothing, because training and interviewing consume the engineers you already have.
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. Productivity in the age of hypergrowth.lethain.com · 10 Oct 2016All korrents from this piece
Their wordsthis 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.