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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people · Erik Bernhardsson

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Building up my team at Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it. Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum. This was a mystery to me, until it all made sense to me.

Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people 2019-02-21 When I started building up a tech team for Better , I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it. Many fellow CTOs, some went for the other side of the spectrum. This was a mystery to me, until it all made sense to me. What is output? Before we get started, let me clarify what I mean by "output" or "productivity". I don't mean an engineer just hammering on the keybo

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