There is always a good debate on HN about hiring, but it feels like we really are comparing apples to oranges here.<p>Hiring tactics depend heavily on the size of the organisation. They have to: for a 3-people startup you want someone who will break walls and get stuff done, for a thousand-people-heavy dev team you need people who can do one job <i>very precisely</i>. Those tasks require very different personalities, so naturally, very different hiring questions.