Why hiring a FAANG engineer for a pre seed startup usually backfires

We brought in a brilliant senior dev from a big tech company early on and it turned out to be a complete mismatch. They were so used to massive teams, automated CI/CD pipelines and fully specced Jira tickets that facing our messy duct taped codebase completely paralyzed them.

They wanted enterprise grade architecture when all we needed was a quick MVP shipped by Friday. For founders who survived their first engineering hire how do you screen out people who need massive support systems before they join?