Programmers are bad at estimating time to completion for their own work, it's true. But to ask them to estimate someone else's time is unfair because that depen

Programmers are bad at estimating time to completion for their own work, it's true. But to ask them to estimate someone else's time is unfair because that depends heavily on the individual. Some will finish in 2 hours, and that is probably who they'd like to hire.