> you're presuming that not only are these people playing the same game but they're willing to help along someone else who they know has no interests but their own at heart.
Referring people for no other reason than that you know them works great, since it will implicitly happen in reverse too. See e.g. the Freemasons.
> They burn capital referring you? They burn capital referring you, they burn even more when you make a mess of things.
They burn capital if hiring you seems like a failure, they win if it seems like a success. That means your incentives are aligned. No-one gets dinged for hiring someone who implemented a couple of buzzwords, left after a couple of years for a higher position elsewhere (or got promoted into management), and then the project they were on failed a few years further down the line for unrelated reasons. Quite the opposite.
Referring people for no other reason than that you know them works great, since it will implicitly happen in reverse too. See e.g. the Freemasons.
> They burn capital referring you? They burn capital referring you, they burn even more when you make a mess of things.
They burn capital if hiring you seems like a failure, they win if it seems like a success. That means your incentives are aligned. No-one gets dinged for hiring someone who implemented a couple of buzzwords, left after a couple of years for a higher position elsewhere (or got promoted into management), and then the project they were on failed a few years further down the line for unrelated reasons. Quite the opposite.