While terrifying, I think the real danger is hiring someone who can code, but can't do it in a maintainable way. I'd much rather have someone not write a single

While terrifying, I think the real danger is hiring someone who can code, but can't do it in a maintainable way. I'd much rather have someone not write a single line of code, rather than have them write 6 months of unmaintainable spaghetti code. Zero contribution is bad, but it's much worse if they have a negative multiplier on the future of the team (if what should take a day to do takes a week to do because of unmaintainable code).