Hiring Is a Risk Calculation
Taking bets on people who fall outside of the lines simply means that the company is more at risk of losing.
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To a business, workers perform like stocks. Some increase in value. Some flop. But if the company sticks to the playbook—and hires the safest bets—it’s likely to come out ahead in the end.
When you think of it this way, and remove all human emotion, the way companies recruit and hire makes sense. Taking bets on people who fall outside of the lines simply means that the company is more at risk of losing.
In the end, hiring is a risk calculation. And as a company scales, risk tolerance tends to go down.
– Nate
Note: This is an observation—not an opinion about how companies should recruit and hire.
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