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Open hiring calls rarely find programmers who last; the warm referral of someone you worked beside for two years has by far the best hit rate.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said

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hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

How should software engineers be interviewed?under our view: What former colleagues say about a candidate outweighs how well they interview

What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said

  1. David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
    If we look at the long-term success rates, we have had more long-term employees from I've worked with this person for 2 years, we should hire them than we have from the open calls.

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    8 Apr 2026 · video · 1h 47m · spoken · machine transcript

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