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The Most Expensive Bug: Bad Hiring

Bad hiring costs more than any bug in the code. How to transform hiring from a lottery into a managed process using a B2B contract.

Authors: slavb18

The most expensive bug in a company is not code.

It's bad hiring.

One person can:

  • slow down the team
  • break processes
  • create chaos

And it costs:

months of time millions of dollars

But hiring is treated less strictly than code.

Although the consequences are much worse.

Code can be rewritten. Architecture can be redesigned. Even a product can be pivoted.

It doesn't work that way with people.

How Hiring Happens Now

Hiring is still:

  • intuition
  • impression
  • "seems okay"

Instead of:

  • metrics
  • a system
  • real-world validation

And that's why companies pay for the same mistake again and again.

The Obvious Solution

👉 Work together first, then hire.

A short-term B2B contract provides:

  • real-task validation
  • understanding of speed and quality
  • transparent results

And only after that - hiring.

What This Changes

This removes the main risk: uncertainty.

And transforms hiring from a lottery into a managed process.

Want to try it? @iconicompany

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