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> And almost everyone is hiring by committee now. Because if the committee hires the wrong person, nobody hires the wrong person.

At least in some cases, it's a reaction to some managers having made hiring decisions perceived by leadership as mistakes. Impersonal and bureaucratic as it might be, to the extent it keeps the bar higher I think it's a good thing.

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I understand that reasoning, but I don’t think it bears out.

It results in frequently hiring the lowest common denominator. No risks are taken. Bold thinking is suppressed. It trains your managers, whom you don’t trust to hire their own team members, that leadership is done by committees.

And what’s the solution to a bad committee hire? A bigger committee.

All fair points. It probably depends a lot on the size of the company. At some stages you need to take risks; at others, you need to prioritize avoiding bad hires.

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