alt Hacker News> Also, the best (albeit the most expensive) selection process is simply letting the new person to do the actual work for a few weeks.
What kind of desperate candidate would agree to that? Also, what do you expect to see from the person in a few weeks? Usual onboarding (company + project) will take like 2-3 months before a person is efficient.
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Tade0 • last Thursday at 12:09 PM
If you work with Boring Technology, your onboarding process has no reason to be longer than a week, unless you're trying to make the non-tech parts of the role too interesting.
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Candidate would be compensated, obviously. That's why it's expensive.
You don't need him to become efficient. Also I don't think it is always necessary to have such long onboarding. I'll never understand why a new hire (at least in senior position) can't start contributing after a week.