Solution - recruitment?

“We could just hire real top-gun programmers. This isn’t really a solution; once again we’re pushing the problem down in one place and seeing it come up in another. Since there aren’t that many super-programmers in the world finding them is a problem, keeping them a problem, motivating them is a problem and even if we overcome these problems it’s quite likely that within our group of super-programmers we would see an elite group emerge.
Hiring a group of super-programmers is in itself an admission of defeat, we’re saying: We don’t know how to create productive employees; we’re going to poach people from companies who do. In doing so we move the problem from our code to recruitment.”
Allan Kelly “The Developer's New Work” Overload 65

Hiring a group of super-programmers is in itself an admission of defeat, we’re saying: We don’t know how to create productive employees; we’re going to poach people from companies who do. In doing so we move the problem from our code to recruitment.”