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0 pointsesseph9mo ago0 comments

You are hiring a cog to fit in the machine then, nothing more.

And that's fine for some people who are just "passing through" with no concept of ownership of anything. A lot of people probably.

But you're also going to miss out on people that take extreme ownership of success and failure that have really dedicated themselves to various crafts over their life and career.

You will never, ever, ever get the performance and gains by hiring a cog compared to hiring a craftsman.

Just depends on the org priorities.

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jvanderbot9mo ago

This isn't necessarily true. You can hand craft a highly independent and empowered team at a large company (pets not cattle), and still have hundreds of candidates to sift through. At JPL, we did this. We were very careful about hiring, but did have many, many qualified candidates to choose from.

But I will say, we were also careful to accommodate candidate schedules as much as possible, but yes, we did pass on folks who were asking for significantly more than others. It's a balancing game.

essephOP9mo ago

Familiar with JPL datacenter, I was working at USDA NITC DISC under OCIO during the competition for certain other gov contracts.

Sounds like you're not there anymore, but Thank You.

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