Goodhart’s Law and Hiring

It must be difficult to hire people. According to Goodhart's law," When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." With a job even slightly abstracted from direct financial figures, measuring the value a new hire adds in an unfamiliar role would be impossible.

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