Programmers change jobs very frequently. They come and go. So why are we so obsessed with "getting it right", as if hiring a programmer were like signing a 30 y

Programmers change jobs very frequently. They come and go. So why are we so obsessed with "getting it right", as if hiring a programmer were like signing a 30 year mortgage? Hiring is a crapshoot. You'll make bad hires. That's an unavoidable fact of life. Professional sports teams spend millions of dollars on talent evaluation and still get it completely wrong all the time. No, a bad programming hire is _not_ devastating to your company. You'll live. A bad CEO hire could be devastating, but you can't do a whiteboard or a take-home test for that. "The perfect hiring process" is classic premature optimization.