[Jach]

How do you decide whom to hire for the contract role though? ;) A bad hire should indicate that your mini project missed testing something important for your team. In my own experience with an intern who didn't live up to my hopes, I realized I wasn't testing for the ability to read code not written by them, whose whole they cannot hold all in their heads (only a contextual part at a time), and make some changes to it. I do that now.