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#72 Is it a Culture Problem or a Hiring Problem?

That Will Never Work

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How to Interview a Great Engineer

Culture is observational not aspirational so you've got to model the behavior you want to see in the rush of the organization or it won't stick. When someone's bad at it let them go recognize your mistakes and move on I mean don't get again, he says. Jim was clear to all of us in three months that he doesn't do it and they didn't do anything about it and he hired 10 people who don’t do anything about just becomes something that he's tension to. "If you don't fix this stuff now you'll never fix it it just gets worse and worse and worse"

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