This, to me, is a really good signal of how well run a company is. After all, a company is merely a collection of people on whom its outcomes are entirely dependent. Thus, the single most important function a company can perform is hiring. If a company fails to recognize this or just does it incompetently, its probably a crappy company. Thus, slow responses == crappy company.
Making money is a downstream output of the activities of your people. So, if making money is your goal, the most important thing you can do to reach your goal is to hire the right people.
> I would postulate the single most important thing a company can do is make money.
Nobody in the company "makes money" (unless the company is a bank, then they literally do, by giving out loans). The people perform various functions and the money made or lost by the company is a result of a sum total of their actions.
Companies with poor hiring likely don't make money. There maybe a select few that have such a desirable product that they cannot help themselves. Usually that is short lived as competition eats your lunch because your crappy employees cannot adapt.
