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by BeetleB 3153 days ago
>But I have many colleagues who make mistakes (even when people object clearly), dig a hole for themselves, double down on the mistake, and the either back their way into job security with their mess or end up moving on once the chickens come home to roost.

Your making the parent's point for him. This is a behavioral problem. Hence, screening for culture fit.

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> This is a behavioral problem

No. These people are generally open to suggestions that they grok. They just can't, at least sometimes, comprehend more indirect or abstract problems (like CAP theorem implications that influence the design of SQL tables and business keys). They write code that meets requirements in the short run but get bogged down in a local maximum that can't be improved upon without an expensive rewrite.