<story><title>Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best</title><url>https://www.getparthenon.com/blog/how-to-avoid-hiring-the-best-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtnGoat</author><text>Call me crazy but I always focus more on the individual and asking them personal questions more than delving into silly leetcode they learned for the sake of gaming a system and will soon forget.&lt;p&gt;My company works with a bunch of not so mainstream APIs so if I just waited for experts in everything we work on, I’d wait forever. I’d rather hire good, smart, people and then fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Smart, hardworking dedicated employees are much harder to find than leetcoders. And they learn really quickly with a lot less attitude and grandiose opinions of themselves.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best</title><url>https://www.getparthenon.com/blog/how-to-avoid-hiring-the-best-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekFortyTwo</author><text>Recently changed jobs in tech, high demand skillset.&lt;p&gt;I sent out exactly one copy of my resume to a company that I thought might be interesting to work for. Otherwise I just responded to LinkedIn recruiter requests.&lt;p&gt;In the time it took that one company to get back to me at all, I had landed a job and was on week 2 of 3 weeks notice.&lt;p&gt;Move fast matters.</text></comment>