There is bunch of certifications available for devs and/or various scopes of technical knowledge. For some reason all of the people that I've met who are in pos

There is bunch of certifications available for devs and/or various scopes of technical knowledge. For some reason all of the people that I've met who are in possession of such a certificate were subpar developers in general. Same with uni degree. I've seen programming olympiad winners writing horrific stuff. On other hand, if I to have a new guy sitting next to me tomorrow which code I will review and support... Well, I'd like to ensure somehow that I won't spend hours and hours on explaining things and that I won't get paged at the midnight because of suck trivial f-up. What's the solution though? I can see anything but just hire the person for a week, 2, may be a month. Give them a boot camp project, observe and then make a decision. That's what happens with lots of interns anyway...