[gggggggg]

I might be wrong, but I would like to think everyone getting a new job has something in them to do something awesome. Well anyone with a decent amount of experience anyway.

A fresh set of eyes and no history is all it takes a lot of the time. I am not sure this makes someone really awesome though.

[krapp]

I agree with the sentiment but I think it's more the "fulfill this arbitrary metric in a month or you're fired" implied here:

If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome. And awesome is simply defined as me (or your supervisor) thinking to him/herself, “man, that's awesome!” just once.

that's putting people off.