Usually the candidates being seen don't measure up or match the intended position. As an example, "we want to hire a devops person"; okay, you start getting pe

Usually the candidates being seen don't measure up or match the intended position. As an example, "we want to hire a devops person"; okay, you start getting people who do a lot of on premise stuff with Ansible/Chef/Puppet, and have to be told explicitly what to do. What you really wanted was someone familiar with AWS, setting up cloudformations, autoscaling, VPC configuration, etc, and who could be given an app, said "here's how it runs", and then figure out what needs to be done on their own.