On the flipside, I've spent an hour with a candidate who seemed great, but could hardly _actually program_. It was a bizarre dichotomy. Dude was clearly smart a

On the flipside, I've spent an hour with a candidate who seemed great, but could hardly _actually program_. It was a bizarre dichotomy. Dude was clearly smart as hell but was so caught up in building perfect abstractions in parts of our software that _didn't matter all that much_ using languages that nobody else knew or wanted to use. I get it, your fun language is fun. But if the dev shop is 60% one language and 39% another, I don't really care about the small improvements. You need a strong reason that it actually _helps the business_