Steve Jobs says hiring top talent takes a year or more of effort. Meeting one exceptional candidate sets a benchmark that ruins every mediocre one after. He pulled technical people from HP and refused to compromise on second-best hires.
It seems like all the good people I really want to hire, it seems to take me a year to hire them. And it's always been that way, even at Apple. Some of the best technical people or whoever, it always seemed to take me like a year to pry them out of HP or wherever. And it took me over a year to hire— I think Mike has the award, you're about a year and a half. And they're all worth it. What happens is I usually meet somebody that is really good, I think is very, very good, and you can't get them, and then you go try to find other people, and nobody measures up. You know, when you meet somebody that good, you always compare them to this one person. You know you're going to be settling for second best if you compromise. I've always found it best not to compromise.
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