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Best case: they want to hire people who don’t like red tape and just want to get stuff done, people who thrive on little to no oversight

Worst case: they want to hire people that will work endless hours to meet arbitrary deadlines

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One thing is for sure: they aren’t going to hire someone with potential and invest in developing them up.

Not everyone has the skillset required to do that, and in a small team you may not have anyone with that skillset.

I"m mad at myself for seeing the CEO of one of my former employers pushing the book Grit constantly, seeing the above behavior and not putting two and two together for months...

That's perfectly reasonable, many companies are not in a position where they can afford (or are able) to grow someone up.

I see way more juniors hired than companies can afford, and then people wonder why nothing gets done with "so many developers". Each junior absorb capacity from more senior employees.

It's purely a business choice whether you hire someone to grow up or not.

Precisely the opposite. Usually "grit" means they're willing to hire hustlers who are eager to pick up new skills than established entitled slackers.

That's quite a wide range, but sounds about right. OP, we need you to apply and find out, for science!

I assume OP asked because of the Flexport job ad on HN (currently #19) which says "looking for gritty people". Apply and let us know :D

Someone on the marketing team has been watching Hard Knocks

I think the wide range is appropriate given that the thread is trying to extrapolate an entire company's culture from a single word in a job posting title. It's up for interpretation, but I think the message the company is trying to get across is that their culture is not like that portrayed in the recent LinkedIn employee TikTok videos.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/linkedin-employee-reignites-wo...

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