Getting discouraged because of increase in low productivity folks at work
While the organisation strength has grown multi fold after I joined the company. Strongly feel that the productivity of people who joined in the recent past is very low. I personally feel demotivated because of this entire productivity shift. Any suggestions on how do I handle this?
I know new folks might feel that earlier ones have a lot of context and connections but that is not a good enough reason to not be productive.
Have you observed this?
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My take on this is as organization grows and have to cater to larger scale, quality of hire goes down.
Observed helplessly in a service company long back. My mentors were gold our peer and immediate juniors were gold, but then came scale as we approached covid and maybe a year before COVID. Our org was filled with crrap unfortunately. As you grow and need more people to expand, quality ofcourse will be compromised... Not sure if it's the same thing with you
So we scaled but org was very frugal and didn’t want to spend on good folks. So I get irritated about it a bit… again good well paid folks not equivalent to good talent but still. You have to offer the best possible for good talent
No no it's linearly correlated. Before trying to scale the company had invested well into hiring. Literally it was best as we employees chose top colleges, went and hired from there, we didn't have filler pressure as we had time to wait. Once we hired someone we trained them for 3 months. Employees trained their juniors. I will be honest, training that I went through was epic. But then came scaling..
No offense to hard working WITCH folks. But think of the bulk hiring WITCH does. I was interviewed into WITCH as a formality in college(of course I got better opportunities and didn't join WITCH). Formality in the sense a 30 min useless CAT type questions and a 8 min interview and then HR... So the WITCH hiring bar is too low and our service company started hiring WITCH candidates because they are unfortunately paid low. And we were in a mode to just fill somebody into the roles as there were too many positions client was waiting to start projects and we didn't have anybody to fill. And forget training as these were no longer freshers.. so only formality online courses were to be completed.
Now think... From carefully choosing, visiting colleges and training them to pick from the poorly hired lot of WITCH companies our strategy changed and we had too much craap in our company before we knew it. (Effort to build culture vs fill positions to gobble profit) is what makes stuff change...
What do you mean by ‘low productivity’ tho? Do they stall? Do they not have context? Do you have to coordinate more?
Examples: So a FS dev (initial team, fresher) was able to close out a feature in 7 days let’s say. The new FS dev (1-2 yo) is taking more than 15-16 days and is buggy.
A PM who could close out feature along with cases, design, APIs to be built and so on in 3-4 days but nee PM delivers something which is sub standard in 8-10 days. Days are post user studies
Have to follow up and coordinate more. Not generalising but 80% of initial hires were productive but only 20% of new hires (later hires) are productive
@GreekJob sounds like your founders/CxO are doing a poor job of setting the culture