Agreed! For instance, at @idagio_official, we were hiring senior, but had a junior apply — he ended up being great.https://twitter.com/wycats/status/801116088268263425 …
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I've had way more successful entry-level hires lately than experienced devs. No regrets.
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the other thing I commonly see is peoples experience being misjudged — males tend to be inflated, females tend to be lowered
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i.e., I've regularly come across cases where men where hired because they were "such a great opportunity not to miss"
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but you'd never ever hear the companies use that language talking about non-male candidates.
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fwiw I said something similar about @HM_Krystan but the usual mental model leading to saying that is indeed broken.
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