What Dave Plummer thinks about hiring
Canadian-American programmer; as a Microsoft engineer in the 1990s he wrote Windows Task Manager, ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows NT and added ZIP folder support. Host of the YouTube channel Dave's Garage.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Dave Plummer has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingIn hiring it is better to turn away talented candidates than to let in a bad hire by mistake.
Their wordsI was very picky and turned away many, many talented candidates. Better than letting in the opposite by mistake.