Don’t get me wrong I’m all for hiring ambitious people. But why when someone screams “I’m using this as a stepping stone” do you hire them? You do realise your stakeholders internally have to tolerate their mediocre work, slow deliverables and lack of knowledge. What is even worse is when as a leader you reward their behaviour and enable them. Then they leave. Great use of everyone’s time and efforts…
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@ta Honestly, there are plenty of people with years of experience who can't do a thing. So many of them are highly paid yet completely incompetent. No wonder companies are drawn to cheap overseas labor. (Even workers in the Philippines can get a decent amount done just by using AI, after all.) Outsourcing to cheaper talent is only going to accelerate from here on out. It just makes perfect rational sense. Basically, experience-based knowledge and just bluffing your way through can be entirely replaced by AI.
It’s gut wrenching when you have to train up someone who has less experience than you, doesn’t know how to do the job and is getting paid more than you
@OP I see new managers hiring ex colleagues from their old company happen a bit. They think better than having to familiarize with a new team. Then they leave… Was the best person hired?
@OP favouritism is alive and well still?