[ljw1001]

When I was at one company (later acquired by Google), one of the developers created a model to show just how unlikely it was that every new hire would continue to raise the average level of competence for the team as a whole (as our hiring traditions espoused). After years of hiring very good programmers, it just wasn't going to be possible to hire many more who could pass that test.

[andai]

Could you elaborate on the hiring process? Was it calibrated to hire people more competent than X% of the current engineers?