{"id":1930,"date":"2011-12-17T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/links\/avichals-blog-focus-on-building-10x-teams-not-on-hiring-10x-developers.html"},"modified":"2011-12-18T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T01:14:57","slug":"avichals-blog-focus-on-building-10x-teams-not-on-hiring-10x-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/links\/avichals-blog-focus-on-building-10x-teams-not-on-hiring-10x-developers.html","title":{"rendered":"Avichal&#8217;s Blog &#8211; Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avichal Garg argues that hiring a well-rounded, well-coordinated team which plays off its members&#8217; strengths goes farther than hiring a single well-rounded developer.   <\/p>\n<p>I like the concept, but it&#8217;s light on evidence. Is there supporting data, not anecdotes, that hiring such a 10x team is more economical than hiring a smaller group of so-called 10x developers? How much more likely is it that one could find 6-7 complementary developers than a handful who just get shit done? And that their increased quality and output outweigh their extra cost? Without evidence, the argument Is just a lot of hand-waving.   <\/p>\n<p>Still, hiring complementary team members is something to keep in mind. But how does one gauge the personalities required to complement an existing team? How does one spot a &#8220;Pinocchio&#8221; in an interview? What about rebalancing the team as each individual grows or others leave?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avichal Garg argues that hiring a well-rounded, well-coordinated team which plays off its members&#8217; strengths goes farther than hiring a single well-rounded developer. <\/p>\n<p>I like the concept, but it&#8217;s light on evidence. Is there supporting data, not anecdotes, that hiring such a 10x team is more economical than hiring a smaller group of so-called&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/links\/avichals-blog-focus-on-building-10x-teams-not-on-hiring-10x-developers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Avichal&#8217;s Blog &#8211; Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}