by Madeline Hester
“Hiring the wrong person is a very costly mistake,” said Francis Sullivan, CTO of ScaleFactor.
He’s not wrong. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a bad hire costs a company about 30 percent of the employee’s first year earnings. As a software engineering manager, this means it’s important to understand what qualities you want your team’s culture to embody before interviewing a candidate.
When building his own engineering team, Sullivan said it’s great to look for top-tier technical skills, but if personalities don’t align, nothing is going to get developed.
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