I'd be shocked to find anyone I consider a great dev willing to jump through all those hoops for a consulting gig in big, boring corporate-land. For us, the hi

I'd be shocked to find anyone I consider a great dev willing to jump through all those hoops for a consulting gig in big, boring corporate-land. For us, the hiring process is as much about a company proving itself to us as the other way around. Procedural red-tape and long talks with non-technical HR drones are huge red flags that will send many (most?) great devs heading in the other direction.