the best ops teams in government are much more competent than the best ops teams around here;
This is a candidate for the most surprising sentence in the whole comments section! I’d be interested in knowing more about why you believe this. One sort of thing I’d be quite interested in is things you’ve seen government ops teams do fast(even if they’re small things, accomplishments that would surprise many of us in this thread that they could be done so quickly).
Recruitment—in my experience often a weeks long process from start to finish, well oiled and systematic and using all the tips from the handbook on organizational behaviour on selection, often with feedback given too. By comparison, some tech companies can take several months to hire, with lots of ad hoc decision-making, no processes around biases or conflicts of interest, and no feedback.
Happy to give more examples if you want by DM.
I should say my sample size is tiny here—I know one gov dept in depth, one tech company in depth and a handful of other tech companies and gov depts not fully from the inside but just from talking with friends that work there, etc.
This is a candidate for the most surprising sentence in the whole comments section! I’d be interested in knowing more about why you believe this. One sort of thing I’d be quite interested in is things you’ve seen government ops teams do fast (even if they’re small things, accomplishments that would surprise many of us in this thread that they could be done so quickly).
Recruitment—in my experience often a weeks long process from start to finish, well oiled and systematic and using all the tips from the handbook on organizational behaviour on selection, often with feedback given too. By comparison, some tech companies can take several months to hire, with lots of ad hoc decision-making, no processes around biases or conflicts of interest, and no feedback.
Happy to give more examples if you want by DM.
I should say my sample size is tiny here—I know one gov dept in depth, one tech company in depth and a handful of other tech companies and gov depts not fully from the inside but just from talking with friends that work there, etc.