@JenWojcik @april did that at my previous job when I got exhausted from an understaffed team. We went six months without a slot filled because my director tried to hire a “rockstar” and kept failing.

After I got access to the raw pre-HR resumes, and re-developed our hiring pipeline, we spent two weeks interviewing at various stages and then hired an absolute dreamboat of a candidate off of Rackspace’s third shift linux support into a mid level position. The only big hurdles we had post-hire were getting him to realize he could make decisions as long as he could execute them, and that his teammates weren’t infallible, even the architect-ranked ones. He was a great diversity hire as well.

I wish more companies would learn this. We burnt more than $100k in engineering and management hours over six months with futile hiring efforts. As soon as we made it a team effort and agreed we didn’t need to hire a senior+ engineer we landed an ideal teammate in two weeks.