Haven’t you answered your own question? Because they don’t want to build the widget you want them to build. They want to replace your whole engineering team.
What about hiring them to replace the whole engineering team, saving on salaries? Then you’re fucked when that person gets bored and leaves.
Hyper passionate individuals don’t make good hires. They might make good founders though.
The number of presumptions in your reply is astounding. Based on replies and the blog post, OP clearly has projected the best of intentions. This is classic owning of a clown show hiring process and the hiring wing of Codecademy by the OP. I say "well done."
You've misunderstood. I was directly answering the question in the comment that I was replying to. I know nothing about the OP's situation and said nothing about it.
What about hiring them to replace the whole engineering team, saving on salaries? Then you’re fucked when that person gets bored and leaves.
Hyper passionate individuals don’t make good hires. They might make good founders though.