[simonswords82]

I hire and manage software programmers.

In the majority of cases the best candidates are those that "code for fun". This means that they build shit that they find useful, interesting or to showcase a particular skill or new technology. It would be trivial for them to make some of this work available for me to see.

Where this work isn't available we pay potential hires to work on something for a couple of days.

There is usually nothing on a CV that will convince me to hire a person over and above actually seeing some of their work. In cases where I've skipped the "show and tell" step as we call it, my chances of making a bad hire increase exponentially.