What did you do to test they had the experience you expected? What is your hiring process? How did you make your expectations of them clear? > In both cases, t

What did you do to test they had the experience you expected? What is your hiring process? How did you make your expectations of them clear? > In both cases, the new hires had sloppy desks, wrote sloppy code, and presented horrible slides with lots of mistakes (units missing, illegible axes, etc). Our undergrad inters faired a lot better than these two. I don't think it's worth it to overgeneralise. You shouldn't generalise about senior developers with a decades of experience either because you don't know what they spent their time focusing on. From personal perspective as well, it can be really demeaning when people try to attribute any oversight or lack of experience you have to you having done a PhD. Each PhD is radically different. Some do very concrete research, others do very abstract, others present a lot, others very little, some code a lot, some don't etc.