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This is worth a read: https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-everyone-else/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-eve... There's also (the slightly contradictory) advice that because the bad programmers are the ones without jobs, a large proportion of your application will be from a tiny percentage of the developer spectrum.