You have to treat it like a creative field, albeit one which has logical rigors to it. I believe the correct way of hiring in this structure is to hire people f

You have to treat it like a creative field, albeit one which has logical rigors to it. I believe the correct way of hiring in this structure is to hire people for the Apprentice/Journeyman/Master artisan categories used in medieval times. There are clearly master coders out there e.g. Linus Torvalds, John Carmack, etc. I really strongly feel having the master/apprentice structure is the correct way to hire and consider coders, and that many things business wants to do and hires “new programmers” for needs to be considered in terms of how many people you want to hire who can complete the task on their own, and how much help they will need which can be provided in terms of junior/senior positions below the artisan/architecture level programmer.