[dedsm]

"At my current company, we hire based on provable real-world experience."

That is also a pretty bad hiring schema, you are leaving out a great deal of potential great programmers that are just starting, so, which strategy is better? I guess you always leave people behind, if it works for you, it's the right choice, and it has been working for facebook.

[johnbellone]

Different hiring schemes work for different companies. Hell, even different teams within companies. If this works for FB there's a reason it is working.

Job offers will come and go. Don't burn bridges that you may want to cross later in your career.