High Performance Individuals and Teams
&gt; Even more important than finding great engineers is to avoid bad ones.<p>After reading that sentence, I thought to myself, &quot;How long did I go from the start of my career before meeting someone of whom I genuinely thought, &#x27;this person is so bad they should definitely be fired asap&#x27;?&quot;. In my case, I think the answer is somewhere around 20 years.<p>My takeaway from this is that at even with ~18 years of experience, my former self would probably not have appreciated the importance of this advice, as I had rarely or never encountered such a person thus far.