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Low trust, low performance. Nobody wants you, go away.

High performance, high trust is too costly. They aren't applying for the job, they are getting hired without the annoying hiring process.

High performance, low trust is the asshole of the group. If you're on a team and you're the one doing all the work. You're going to be resentful and become an asshole.

Low performance, high trust are the dead weight of the group. They make more problems than they solve.

The more dead weight you get, the more you require the assholes. Worse yet, the assholes become powerful because what happens when they quit or get fired? You are left with a team of low performance. You don't want to be in that situation. So the assholes end up getting promoted, bonuses, raises. All the metrics will be designed to benefit the assholes.

Lots of people think you can hire low performance people and train them to be higher. It rarely works in IT. Things move too quickly, by the time they are good at anything, that thing is obsolete. Hence you need 5 years experience for the entry level job.

The middle path is the way!



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