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This is actually a very well known problem: http://sourcemaking.com/antipatterns/the-grand-old-duke-of-york http://sourcemaking.com/antipatterns/the-grand-old-duke-of-y... Unfortunately, it doesn't necessarily end upon hiring either. Usually, the "implementationists" won't get the "abstractionist" point of view and will reject it immediately. And since they're more common, this can lead to bad ideas winning simply because everyone understands them.