This article is incorrect from beginning to end. As a simple counterpoint to this idea that "I have never once heard a firm talk about the idiots lurking in the

This article is incorrect from beginning to end. As a simple counterpoint to this idea that "I have never once heard a firm talk about the idiots lurking in their own offices" Here is the well documented _policy_ held by major (not just tech companies mind you) firms to fire the bottom 10% of their employees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve By the way a form of that is used at Microsoft and Google, probably others as well, but the idea that Silicon Valley and Computer Programming are the only place where people are on the look out for "Secretly Terrible Engineers" is absurd, its just as absurd as the comments I am reading where no one has ever worked with one of them. As a hiring manager I turn away over 95% of candidates and even with a very selective hiring process you get people we need to let go because they can't perform at the level I expect them to even after passing a rigorous interview process, so to say they don't exist is stupid, its like claiming that no one ever gets fired for not performing their job well enough.