[derekmhewitt]

Just as a spitball idea...

What about a structured "cohort" hiring process where you give potential employees short term (literally one or two days, where you have a group exercise like a "hackathon" where you make a sample product for demo, then moving up to one or two week rounds) contracts that allow you to evaluate and accept (pass on to future rounds) or reject a large candidate pool and thereby filter your potential future employees. Given the current costs of recruiters, HR personnel, interviews and headhunters this might actually end up being cheaper than current "traditional" hiring methods and could generate some very effective development teams.

[scrumper]

That means you can only hire people who don't currently have a job.