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The disincentives are huge though. Hiring a bad employee is a very expensive problem and hard to get rid of.
by unavoidable 2y ago
The disincentives are huge though. Hiring a bad employee is a very expensive problem and hard to get rid of.
- ipaddr 2y agoIsn't it as simple as going on pip for fangs, a short conversation for a founder of a startup and a few weeks notice pay?
- viraptor 2y agoThat comes after the decision that you can't fix the situation, which comes after you discovered that the hire was bad, which comes after a number of visible failures. That's a lot of wasted time/effort, even if the firing itself is simple.
- gopher_space 2y agoThe cost of hiring, firing, rehiring approximates the position’s yearly salary.
- deprecative 2y agoIn my area they just tell you to leave. No warning. No severance. Midwest US.
- jamesfinlayson 2y agoDepends on the country I think - in Australia at least it seems like you can sue for unfair dismissal if you're angry about being kicked out, so HR departments only seem to get rid of someone as a last resort.
- paxys 2y agoThe process is anything but simple at large companies. Even if the new hire is a complete fraud and can barely write code it'll still take an average manager 6-12 months to be able to show them the door. And it'll involve countless meetings and a mountain of paperwork, all taking away time from regular work. And then it'll take another 6 months to get a replacement and onboard them. That means your team has lost over a year of productivity over a single bad hire.
- Yoric 2y agoIn which country? In France, for instance, you have a (typically) 6 months long no questions asked window to fire a new hire, if they prove a bad employee. Presumably, if you haven't found out in 6 months, you wouldn't find out by changing the interviewing strategy.