[ng12]

Sounds to me like that's a really god way to hire people who are really good at bullshitting.

The absolute hardest thing about hiring developers is hiring people who I can trust to write code. Most applicants are just not adequate programmers and any other redeeming qualities they have can't overcome that core deficiency. I need people who can look at different ways to solve a problem, implement an approach that makes sense, and explain why it does. I need code reviews to be about architecture decisions and correctness not lessons on how to write code. If someone can't do that I really don't care how well they can sell themselves as an "asset".