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Really?? That's some strong opinion, which I disagree with.

• loumf 16y ago
  This old Joel Spolsky article gives an argument to why that is: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... If you believe that good programmers are more likely to be offered a job than bad ones, it pretty much flows from that that bad programmers will be interviewing more. If that's so, then you are more likely to interview bad programmers. Statistically, on average, etc. Not in every case.
  • andrewstuart 16y ago
    Perhaps true that some good and great programmers get snapped up by people who know them and never need to look at a job board. It's not true in general however that good and great programmers don't have to go through the normal channels to find jobs. I encounter many extremely talented programmers who weren't just snapped up by their network of colleagues.
    • philwelch 16y ago
      Even assuming great programmers do look at job boards and go through normal channels, they're more likely to get hired and stay employed, which still makes the numbers game work out like I described.
• philwelch 16y ago
  It would be more interesting to hear why you disagree. It seems fairly straightforward to me, though I probably appropriated the argument from Joel Spolsky as loumf points out.