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best explanation i’ve read so far!

• the_af 1y ago
  If I remember correctly, there's an ancient article by Joel Spolsky about this. That great candidates are not out there doing blind interviews, only those of us who are average are interviewing and going through hoops. Engineers below average are almost constantly interviewing.
  • MontyCarloHall 1y ago
    Yup, back in 2005 [0]! It's far from a new idea. [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/
    • libraryofbabel 1y ago
      It’s rather older than this. Any argument about “the market is swamped by bad X in circulation and good X are much rarer in the market than you would naively expect” (software developers, online dating, used cars, debased currency…) is just a version of Gresham’s Law, which is 500 years old: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law