> Hiring someone who cannot program for a programmer role seems to have many potential drawbacks, have you considered them? My problem is with the focus on tes

> Hiring someone who cannot program for a programmer role seems to have many potential drawbacks, have you considered them? My problem is with the focus on testing, I didn't mean to imply that programmers don't need to have basic programming skills. The quote above was misleading -- sorry about that -- see my clarifications in other replies.