I agree completely. You need a "rockstar" if you're doing a rockstar project. 99% of projects don't even approach that level of need. I found simply talking to

I agree completely. You need a "rockstar" if you're doing a rockstar project. 99% of projects don't even approach that level of need. I found simply talking to people about development gave me more than enough to know whether they could develop or not. It's hard to fake out someone else that's knowledgeable. Now when you have managers who haven't been engineers doing the interviewing, they have to focus on other shit because they have no idea how to differentiate. I've dealt with that so much in my career I've pretty much given up.