Or they're making the cardinal mistake of hiring developers who have N years of experience painting brown houses (per the link below) -- i.e. "Have you worked w

Or they're making the cardinal mistake of hiring developers who have N years of experience painting brown houses (per the link below) -- i.e. "Have you worked with exactly our stack, such that you have all the build steps and gotchas in your muscle memory?" (without a good reason for doing so) - rather than general technical and GSD skills, which usually. Granted, sometimes fluency in the XYZ of their stack matters - but usually it just doesn't, and grilling people for this fluency shows a lack of sense for the broader picture, in my view. https://versastudio.com/blog/if-carpenters-were-hired-like-programmers https://versastudio.com/blog/if-carpenters-were-hired-like-p...