> Not only that but a cheap, inexperienced dev can create negative value. Not just in the product that they're working on but your entire brand. > Just ask Lin

> Not only that but a cheap, inexperienced dev can create negative value. Not just in the product that they're working on but your entire brand. > Just ask LinkedIn or Yahoo if it was a good idea to put some ignorant fool in charge of the system that stored passwords. Aside: I'm sure that person is worth more now because they won't make such mistakes (again)! Why are you assuming the problems of Yahoo and LinkedIn were caused by cheap, inexperienced developers? From my experience I think the problem was more likely that someone implemented a basic, not-for-production system to scaffold the larger system and was not permitted to change it by management that demanded it be released yesterday.