Hiring and Onboarding Talented Engineers Is a Leadership Responsibility

In this episode of The Agile Engineering Deep Dive, Alessandro Guida explores why hiring should be treated as a long-term leadership investment rather than a short-term operational task.

Many organizations focus on speed, cost, and visible output when hiring engineers. But these signals often hide the real risks: poor role definition, mismatched expectations, underinvestment in onboarding, and decisions that optimize for the next quarter rather than the next decade.

This episode reflects on how different problems require different hiring strategies, why the number of applicants is a misleading success metric, and how leadership choices during hiring quietly shape culture, capability, and resilience over time.

The goal is not to slow organizations down, but to make hiring decisions more deliberate, responsible, and sustainable - especially in engineering environments where long-term value depends on people, not just processes or tools.

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