> non-technical companies sometimes strongly undervalue IT or programming expertise They might also be unable to know if a job applicant is good at IT or not?

> non-technical companies sometimes strongly undervalue IT or programming expertise They might also be unable to know if a job applicant is good at IT or not? And listen mostly to how he/she describes him/herself, and how confident he/she sounds? Meaning, the company in effect hires IT people a bit randomly, and then mostly finds people who aren't that good at their job. And if the company started paying more, then, more competent people, but also lots of more so-so competent people, would apply for the job? And I wonder if the company then still ends up with a random mediocre IT people who are unable to really secure the network? Just that the salaries are higher? I wonder if the underlying problem is that 99% of the population is unable to know if someone is good at software or not