Hiring and the market for lemons

1 · Dan Luu · Oct. 9, 2016, 9:44 a.m.
Joel Spolsky has a classic blog post on "Finding Great Developers" where he popularized the meme that great developers are impossible to find, a corollary of which is that if you can find someone, they're not great. Joel writes, The great software developers, indeed, the best people in every field, are quite simply never on the market. The average great software developer will apply for, total, maybe, four jobs in their entire career. ... If you're lucky, if you're really lucky, they show up on...