We've all lived the nightmare. A new developer shows up at work, and you try to be welcoming, but he1 can't seem to get up to speed; the questions he asks reveal basic ignorance; and his work, when it finally emerges, is so kludgey that it ultimately must be rewritten from scratch by more competent people. And yet his interviewers?and/or the HR department, if your company has been infested by that bureaucratic parasite?swear that they only hire above-average/A-level/top-1% people. It's a big problem, especially now. There's a boom on. I get harassing emails from recruiters every day. Everyone's desperate to hire developers?but developers are not fungible. A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity. Hiring a mediocre or bad developer is a terrible mistake for any organization; for a startup, it can be a catastrophic company-killer. So how can it happen so often? Like many of the hangovers that haunt modern software engineering, this is ultimately mostly Microsoft's fault.2
Mia Kirshner Elisabeth Röhm Lily Allen Emmanuelle Chriqui Anna Faris
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