Comments on: Friday Q&A: Terrified of hiring the wrong people? Here’s what to do.

By: Julie Delisle

Julie Delisle — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:33:08 +0000

Thanks for this post, very valuable for people working in startup, where we do not have specialized HR people – and hiring the good people (and keeping them) is so important!

I could not agree more with the fact that it is better to hire carefully and methodically and I personally despise the “hire fast, fire faster” cliché. Better to take more time to hire the right person than loosing way more time and money by making mistakes. And we are talking about human beings, not things to be “tried”.

About the trial project: what do you do for positions that require a considerable training/onboarding period? (By example, back-end developers who has to become familiar with the code?)

Thanks!

By: Florian Hendrickx

Florian Hendrickx — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:38:47 +0000

Hey Alex, we’re with 2 right now. Very earIy-stage. My partner works full time on product dev / design. I am spending most of my time doing everything else selling, getting product feedback, marketing, website, social…

We only recently really thinking about hiring. Mainly because we finally feel we could give someone real autonomy over a project or a part of our product. And we could really define a process to work together with someone…

Does that seem like a good reason to hire in the first place?

By: Abigail Schulz

Abigail Schulz — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:48:23 +0000

As a start up what do you do about benefits?

By: Josh Nankin

Josh Nankin — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:47:34 +0000

Thanks so much for featuring my question! With regard to the 2-4 week trial, how often do you encounter a candidate that thinks that that amount of time is too long or say that they would need to see an offer before agreeing to a trial period?