When building a team, you need more than just technical aptitude, therefore years of experience can also help judge: - how well someone can get along with the

When building a team, you need more than just technical aptitude, therefore years of experience can also help judge: - how well someone can get along with the group - how well someone knows the industry and relationships they've built within it - how well make decisions that are not specifically programming-based that may need a business perspective as well