[Solvency]

And yet those sports teams still spend millions of dollars and expertise on it (recruiting). So what's techs excuse? It's harder so we don't bother?

[LargeTomato]

We can watch players play previous games. We can see their progression as a player over time.

For tech, it's hard to know if someone is good in just a couple hours of interviewing.

[azemetre]

Why could you use someone's previous work or portfolio?

[nradov]

The best developers don't have any portfolio that they can share. It's all locked up in former employers' code repositories.

[nradov]

It's not an excuse. Everyone in tech acknowledges that effective recruiting is important. But beyond doing basic stuff right like not ghosting candidates, that knowledge isn't actionable. No one has found a reliable, repeatable, scalable solution. If you can figure that out then you'll be a billionaire.