Also, what was the source of these hundreds of candidates? I've personally experienced a situation where all our candidates came from a headhunting body shop w

Also, what was the source of these hundreds of candidates? I've personally experienced a situation where all our candidates came from a headhunting body shop where almost all had terrible coding skills and yet management refused to consider candidates from other sources. I suspect the process of filling the candidate pool was probably broken at your previous company too.