[arcbyte]

Boom. Hired.

If any of the candidates I've interviewed and hired had this sort of independent and outside-the-box thinking, I'd have doubled their salaries when I hired them.

[nine_k]

Have you actually made an offer to that person?

Do you have the power to double salaries of people in your org?

[PakG1]

The implication seems to be that gp has never interviewed and hired people who "had this sort of independent and outside-the-box thinking".

[nine_k]

If the implication is true, that would be a data point.

If the implication is false, it would be an exciting data point!

HN being what it is, here is quite a non-zero chance to meet a person with real hiring power who really could have made an offer to the person in question.

[StavrosK]

The GP's sentence was in the conditional perfect (would have), which means he never met someone like that (otherwise he would have said "did").

[sharemywin]

But, did you use a recruiter for hiring?

Seems to me like an org that uses a recruiter isn't looking for "outside the box" employees. Obviously they aren't sourcing candidates with outside the box processes.