You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
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You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
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#3The best companies hire relatively green engineers and develop them.
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#4Counterpoint: You want to hire the best engineers and empower them to work how they are most effective, remotely or not.
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Dang, the cope is rarely this obvious. Don't take out your commute on the rest of us, we're harmless!
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#6I mean...you should probably hire good enough engineers that a website can withstand a pretty small amount of HN attention...
...I kid!
But seriously, though, how is it possible in 2025 that websites can still collapse from the relatively minuscule traffic that an HN front page sends? Are people upvoting this submission without having actually seen it?
EDIT: For the "works for me" people, the site's host, framer.app, uses Amazon's cloud and whole regions are getting SSL errors for this domain.
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I haven't seen a lot of evidence of this. Just a lot of CEOs and managers who really want it to be true.
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#8Companies that say they only want the "the best engineers" or "we only hire A-students" and "top of the cake-engineers" I've usually found to be a breeding-ground for a somewhat toxic work-environment.
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This is just true on its face. Imagine you were building a new CPU architecture and the head engineer was just not at the office.
Maybe people would agree if we change the word “best” to “most responsible” or “most accountable”.
Re: You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
#10I mean...you should probably hire good enough engineers that a website can withstand a pretty small amount of HN attention... ...I kid! But seriously, though, how is it possible in 2025 that websites can still collapse from the relatively minuscule traffic that an HN front page sends? Are people upvoting this submission without having actually seen it? EDIT: For the "works for me" people, the site's host, framer.app,…
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