This article was a decent discussion about the complexity of hiring discplined and competent developers in the modern IT world. I've always had a problem with this just as anyone else in IT and it provides some decent recommendations for making this process more objective.
This reminds me of auditions or try outs (i.e. sports). In other discplines where your performance is more critical than anything else (i.e. music, dance, theatre), the audition weeds out the candidates who 'just don't have it'. The same can be said for trying out for a sports team. Many people just don't make the cut even with their good intentions. They may have the right credentials, experience and references however, they just could not deliver when required. This is the same problem that exists with hiring good knowledge workers and software developers. It takes too long to find out if the candidate can perform.
The team and chemistry aspect of hiring is not discussed here.. that is a whole other set of management topics.
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