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match on March 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's not a talent shortage, it's a hiring problem

"All of the rest is pretty much a waste of time at least until after that key item is settled."

Yes, but unfortunately settling this item is not as simple asking "Can you do the job?". Oddly enough all the candidates say "Yes".

meric on March 11, 2012 [–]

What about doing some sort of 3-month probation thing? Is that legal? Will that turn away too many developers?

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