[mycelium]

And to pile on the anecdotes, I've been in the exact opposite situation where we needed somebody right now to handle a new requirement, and we hired someone "pretty good" after already taking longer than the rest of management was happy with to hire.

They ended up being pretty weak, having trouble shipping, eating large amounts of onboarding and management attention, as well as other engineers patching up their work to make it serviceable. They were just good enough to make it seem worth the slog too, so they sucked a bunch of extra labor out of everyone else for the better part of a year before they left.

In retrospect, I made the right decision with what I knew in the moment — but with 20/20 hindsight I should have waited.

[rhizome]

So it sounds like they were "fine," and the cost was not really that high.

[mycelium]

No, it sucked.