Great Employees Are Raised, Not Hired

As well as, reasons why people leave jobs for better pay and career growth.

If you hire new talent and compensate them better and don’t also raise compensation and or responsibilities for other existing employees your going to create feelings that lead to disengagement. Which gets us to people writing articles about how it’s better to grow employees vs, bringing in outside talent to the existing team.

If you have good culture, fair compensation and clear paths to career growth, then yes I agree growing in house skills will be better, with starting new employees at the bottom to not offend existing people you have invested in their career growth.

It sounds to me that the author has some experience with bad culture and was slighter by some new employees who may have gotten promoted or flat out hired above them without having more skills than they possess essentially killing their ability to move to higher rungs inside the organization.