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Developer hiring and the market for lemons
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,
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Career & ManagementTech Industry & Business2016
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2016 | Developer hiring and the market for lemons by mkeeter | 448 | 378 |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Hiring and the market for lemons (2016) by ff_ | 128 | 117 |
| Jun 16, 2020 | Hiring and the Market for Lemons (2016) by weinzierl | 52 | 49 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 12 Hacker News comments by 10 different people, from Sep 2017 to Oct 2025.
Most recent:
- zeckalpha · Oct 10, 2025
- brudgers · Jan 9, 2025
- another-acct · Sep 11, 2024
- achenet · Oct 4, 2023
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- lylejantzi3rd · Aug 13, 2023
