> "Perfection is the enemy of done" [...] It's important to note that these wartime actions will probably increase tech debt in your code. With the emphasis on velocity over quality, architectural compromises and maintenance shortcuts are often taken.
All those years of ZIRP investment scams, and sprint theatre, the industry generally wasn't doing "quality" (and, on average, wasn't capable of quality), so we were already posturing about "getting it done"...
Don't you need to tell a lot of people something *different* than before?
Maybe, when you have to deliver and can't afford huge mess-ups and delays and inefficient boondoggles, and people can't job-hop fast enough to escape their roosting chickens, what you actually need is *smart, aligned people*?
Not to give people permission to flail around incompetently, and make huge messes, pretty much just like before, but now rationalize it as "Getting It Done: Wartime Edition".
> [...] due to the current job market you have more luxury now than a few years ago. Consider allowing 2-3 candidates to pass through all rounds, and choose the best fit from them.
If that's what you need to hire smart, aligned people, then OK.
If it's just most of the same techbro flakiness, now dressed up as "Wartime", then not OK.
All those years of ZIRP investment scams, and sprint theatre, the industry generally wasn't doing "quality" (and, on average, wasn't capable of quality), so we were already posturing about "getting it done"...
Don't you need to tell a lot of people something *different* than before?
Maybe, when you have to deliver and can't afford huge mess-ups and delays and inefficient boondoggles, and people can't job-hop fast enough to escape their roosting chickens, what you actually need is *smart, aligned people*?
Not to give people permission to flail around incompetently, and make huge messes, pretty much just like before, but now rationalize it as "Getting It Done: Wartime Edition".
> [...] due to the current job market you have more luxury now than a few years ago. Consider allowing 2-3 candidates to pass through all rounds, and choose the best fit from them.
If that's what you need to hire smart, aligned people, then OK.
If it's just most of the same techbro flakiness, now dressed up as "Wartime", then not OK.