| That's not the impression I got from reading the article. It says: "Instead of interviewing everyone on the planet and trying to optimize, I set a goal to hire the first person who met all of my criteria." If one of her criteria is "must be a competent developer", then she's going to get competent developers. The kind of criteria she can easily compromise on are: - Some kind of mythical perfect "cultural fit" (e.g., must like to have beer with co-workers after work and eat lunch with them every day). - An exact match on salary requirements (instead of finding someone who will work for $100K or below, pay them their asking salary of $110K; time is money, and if you hire someone today, you'll get to market faster). - Must know every single open source library you're using (if they know 5 out of 8, they can learn the other three faster than it would take you to find the "perfect candidate"). - Attended a fancy college and got a 4.0 GPA (if someone has a few years of work experience, that stuff doesn't matter much anymore). |