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I was planning to write a new blog post earlier this year regarding how badly companies perform technical interviews with IT candidates. So many companies assume that if you're a technical person on staff then you must know how to interview candidates. This is so far from the truth. Companies these days seem to try to figure how how NOT to hire rather than HOW to hire. They're not looking for smart people that can figure things out. They're looking for a wishlist of check-boxes and if not all bo...

I thought I would write a quick article to talk about a perplexing situation I have encountered. My CEO Kevin Ferguson wrote an article this week titled “A Culture of non-Responsiveness” . He was happy to see that many people felt the same way and left some great comments. With that I was thinking about other cultural situations that have definitely changed for the worse.

I ask this question based on how I've seen companies hire people. I've interviewed many thousands of IT professionals and hired many hundreds of them over the past 12 years or so. What is it I look for? I look for smart people that can do the job.