>>106012431
so close but yet so far. Indeed, devs are not fungible. A guy who can be a 10x in a team suited to his skills and way of working can be a -1x in a different team or even a -10x out of spite because he received a laughable 3% raise and now hates your guts. This Matrix level human battery theory of work does not apply to knowledge workers.
people like to work with their own kin. Who looks, speaks and thinks the way they do. If you want to hire competent people make your top guy have a 20 min chat with the applicant without all this code-waterboarding-as-an-excuse-to-confirm-initial-bias nonsense. As long as he is incentivized* to identify the right people your hit rate will be much better
*t. someone charged with hiring people but exclusively trying to make the jeetest of them pass because screw these guys
