When you get to the size of Microsoft with 128,000 employees, you can afford to have some deadwood C, D, F, and 0x employees wasting cubicle space.
IIRC, Amazon (and/or possibly Microsoft, someone can recall better details for me) has a policy of "don't hire the wrong person". They'd rather miss out on awesome than get stuck with sucks. And that's the point of the headline: don't worry so much about hiring 10x as making sure you don't hire 0x, startup or monopoly.
IIRC, Amazon (and/or possibly Microsoft, someone can recall better details for me) has a policy of "don't hire the wrong person". They'd rather miss out on awesome than get stuck with sucks. And that's the point of the headline: don't worry so much about hiring 10x as making sure you don't hire 0x, startup or monopoly.