# About hiring for your team

**Date:** 2026-07-27  
**Author:** Kees C. Bakker  
**Original:** https://keestalkstech.com/notes/about-hiring-for-your-team/

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This is a great article about hiring a strong candidate, that fitted on the technical level, but not on the relational and organizational level:

> He simply operated on a model of engineering work that did not include the relational and organizational layer as part of the work.

When working in teams the team output should be taken into account:

> The question was what the environment needed to look like for that strength to translate into team output rather than individual output.

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                I Hired the Strongest Candidate I Had Ever Interviewed. He Was Unmanageable in
                The interview had told me exactly who he was. I had just been listening for the wrong things.
                                    blog.stackademic.com
                            
        
    ](https://blog.stackademic.com/i-hired-the-strongest-candidate-i-had-ever-interviewed-f89d2c616ed8)