For some reason people are deathly afraid of hiring the wrong person. So afraid that they'd rather pass on 100 good candidates to avoid hiring one person who do

For some reason people are deathly afraid of hiring the wrong person. So afraid that they'd rather pass on 100 good candidates to avoid hiring one person who doesn't fit. It's particularly bad for programming jobs where they expect candidates to go through up to a half dozen separate interviews. The whole process is just completely broken.