As a startup do you employ good people over passionate ones?

Question

I and my team have been working on a platform for weeks now and we need to employ more developers. It's confusing to employ either the good ones or the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payroll

beforeolives · Accepted Answer

What do you mean by good? Are you talking about personality and character, or maybe technically good, or something else?
Anyway, here's what you shouldn't do:
- reduce people down to 2 dimensions that are hard to quantify
- assume that those dimensions are mutually exclusive and you somehow have to pick only one of them
- hire people, expect them to do extra work for free and call this passion

staz · Answer

"good" can mean a lot of things. did you mean more competent?
> the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payroll
do you mean the one that aren't competent enough to get interesting job that are paid?

dave_sid · Answer

I suppose I wouldn&rsquo;t employ someone to wire my house just because they were passionate about it. I&rsquo;d want to know that they will do it right.

runawaybottle · Answer

Part of being a professional is you do the best job possible regardless of whatever factor. Just hire a professional.

ayushinigam1999 · Answer

As a startup, I think it's important to employ passionate people because passionate ones could be turned into good ones but not the other way around.

tubularhells · Answer

Don't ever employ enthusiast developers. They will leave with the next change of wind.Hire the quiet ones that just want to do a good job.

As a startup do you employ good people over passionate ones?

I and my team have been working on a platform for weeks now and we need to employ more developers. It's confusing to employ either the good ones or the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payroll

"good" can mean a lot of things. did you mean more competent?
> the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payroll
do you mean the one that aren't competent enough to get interesting job that are paid?

I suppose I wouldn’t employ someone to wire my house just because they were passionate about it. I’d want to know that they will do it right.

Part of being a professional is you do the best job possible regardless of whatever factor. Just hire a professional.

As a startup, I think it's important to employ passionate people because passionate ones could be turned into good ones but not the other way around.

Don't ever employ enthusiast developers. They will leave with the next change of wind.
Hire the quiet ones that just want to do a good job.

As a startup do you employ good people over passionate ones?

I and my team have been working on a platform for weeks now and we need to employ more developers. It's confusing to employ either the good ones or the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payroll

"good" can mean a lot of things. did you mean more competent?> the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payrolldo you mean the one that aren't competent enough to get interesting job that are paid?

I suppose I wouldn’t employ someone to wire my house just because they were passionate about it. I’d want to know that they will do it right.

Part of being a professional is you do the best job possible regardless of whatever factor. Just hire a professional.

As a startup, I think it's important to employ passionate people because passionate ones could be turned into good ones but not the other way around.

Don't ever employ enthusiast developers. They will leave with the next change of wind.Hire the quiet ones that just want to do a good job.

"good" can mean a lot of things. did you mean more competent?
> the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payroll
do you mean the one that aren't competent enough to get interesting job that are paid?

Don't ever employ enthusiast developers. They will leave with the next change of wind.
Hire the quiet ones that just want to do a good job.