It has been my personal experience that companies can't really tell the difference between a good developer for standard applications and a top developer for co

It has been my personal experience that companies can't really tell the difference between a good developer for standard applications and a top developer for complex applications. Often, the problem is that the main decision makers don't have a good reference to evaluate developer capabilities. The executives are not technical themselves and they don't have top technical people that can do the evaluation. It is also a problem of who evaluates the evaluator.