> Hiring the wrong people is bad, often much worse than missing out on good people. The point here seems to be "hire everyone," which is simply bad advice. I k

> Hiring the wrong people is bad, often much worse than missing out on good people. The point here seems to be "hire everyone," which is simply bad advice. I keep seeing your first statement repeated in various forms. Is there anything other than anecdotes to support the assertion? It seems like one of those "common sense" or "self-evident" truth things that, on examination of actual real-world data, likely isn't quite as valid as it would seem. Also, I didn't get that the point was "hire everyone," so much as "don't let superficial appearances interfere with a decision making process".