Comment on We Can’t Hire You. Developers’ Challenge
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 9 months agoso they’re effectively un-fireable.
For me that’s the biggest mistake your company is making.
I’m all for giving someone an opportunity if you think they might be good, and I’d be cautious accepting an individual’s take on it since they could be wrong for any number of reasons… however you have to be able to fire someone especially early on in their employment.
If you’ve sponsored their visa, then (at least in my country) there are still ways to fire them. You just need to help them find a new more appropriate job - maybe even one inside the current company.
If someone is capable of “completing” a task by paying someone else to do it… then perhaps they have potential as a manager for example. Delegating tasks to other people is a real skill - and apparently an area your company is lacking (the most important ability is knowing who to delegate tasks to… and they put this guy on your team! Wtf). Obviously don’t start as a manager but maybe put them on that career track. Make him an assistant to a manager for example.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It wasn’t an individual’s rejection, though. My colleague who did the screen with me was 100% on the same page, and as far as I know provided a very similar response. We were just overruled because the assessment project we gave came back “good”.
JavaTheHutt@programming.dev 9 months ago
This person sounds like a future manager in the making. I’ve dealt with them in the past. If you’re lucky, they’ll somehow manage to find a better paying job elsewhere. More likely though is that if you want to get away from them you’ll need to find a better paying job elsewhere, or change teams if possible.
To a certain extent, dealing with incompetent/adversarial colleagues can be a learning experience. You get better at designing/coding/communicating in a more idiot-proof fashion. But after a while it starts to hold you back as instead of being able grow, you instead have to stay behind and clean up after the others.