Hiring the Open Source Way

"In a business utopia, every employer would be able to hand-raise employees, selecting those who showed early potential and molding them to excel in a chosen skill set. HR departments would become happy havens of retention and corporate trainers would become den mothers fostering natural selection.

"Alas, we do not live in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Employees are not decanted with a programmed set of skills, and children are not conditioned to prefer one type of work over another..."

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