[bryanrasmussen]

>If you've hired over 20 people, and 19 of them have been bad, it just sounds like there's something wrong with your process.

I think this is part of the reason for the widespread usage of take home / coding assignments etc.

If you have a bad process making people do some work improves your result.

I remember the first company I had with a friend in the late 90s and our process sucked. It was embarrassing, although thinking about it we still had a 50% success rate in technical quality of people we hired. If we had given tests to the people we didn't have someone to vouch for it would have meant we did not make the mistakes we did. And by saying we had a bad process we had a bad firing process as well. The bad hires we made really were catastrophic because we couldn't handle any part of the process.