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Comment by mikhailfranco | Hacker News Reader

So true. Managers really want to hire architects/seniordevs who are experienced, practical, smart and get things done. But if they let the other devs into the interview process they will get vetoes all the way down, because the reports will be:

- envious of your amazing pragmatic and effective skills

- jealous guarding of the architect promotion that they covet for themselves

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Good managers for dev teams should have enough technical knowledge themselves and demand explanations from participating devs why a candidate is or isn't good enough to see through that though. Further personally as a tech lead I've always been keen to take on new devs that clearly are a cut above, as they usually mean an opportunity to work more effectively as a team. And I really don't want to spend even more of day doing reviews of mediocre code.

> And I really don't want to spend even more of day doing reviews of mediocre code.

Or writing essentially pseudocode in Jira description for the dev who can't figure things out. Ask me how I spent my day

> Good managers for dev teams should have enough technical knowledge themselves and demand explanations from participating devs why a candidate is or isn't good enough to see through that though.

I have a hunch that this is quite rare in most companies. Most managers are unskilled enough to override their own intuitions in favor of the mediocre leetcode dev that just vetoed a strong engineer.

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