You hire externally instead of promoting from within a lot. Here's my top 5 reasons why that happens: 1. Development of Internal Talent for the next step is HARD. 2. #1 + you have a business to run. It's hard...
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Guest Post When companies do find, recruit and hire the talent, most aren’t taking the right steps to empower their developer talent to learn, grow, and thrive. Developers are people too, you know. Read Post
According to Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell, "external hires" get significantly lower performance evaluations for their first two years on the job than do internal workers who are promoted into similar jobs. They also ... Read Post
Guest Post We talk to a lot of company founders about recruiting, and their stories are all pretty similar: hiring great developers is hard, and it’s getting harder by the day. Most blame external forces--the talent shortage or comp... Read Post