Yes, in a perfect world, you'd be absolutely right.
A lot of companies choose not to do process oriented work, and just wing it instead because they believe they can go faster. That's fine. It's a choice driven by resources.
What's not fine is complaining that someone you hire is "bad" because they get stuff wrong when you're forcing them to work without a process-based safety net. People will always make mistakes. If your belief is that everyone should be perfect because you've chosen the no-safety route then you don't get to complain when someone nearly sinks the company. Expecting people never to get things wrong is unreasonable, and it's the exact reason why we have processes to catch problems.
> If your belief is that everyone should be perfect [...]
Well, you seem to believe there's such a thing as a perfect process. How is a non-perfect employee (or a group of non-perfect employees) supposed to come up with a perfect process?
> [...] because you've chosen the no-safety route [...]
Who said anything about no safety net? Maybe there was a process, or a safety net, but it wasn't perfect and didn't catch those mistakes?
I didn’t fire him because he made 2 mistakes. I fired him because I was giving him 10-15 hrs/week of coaching and mentorship and he wasn’t improving at all. The process that was bad was our interview process and our process change was changing our interview process.
A lot of companies choose not to do process oriented work, and just wing it instead because they believe they can go faster. That's fine. It's a choice driven by resources.
What's not fine is complaining that someone you hire is "bad" because they get stuff wrong when you're forcing them to work without a process-based safety net. People will always make mistakes. If your belief is that everyone should be perfect because you've chosen the no-safety route then you don't get to complain when someone nearly sinks the company. Expecting people never to get things wrong is unreasonable, and it's the exact reason why we have processes to catch problems.