> Sometimes, people who you think are not capable to do the job, often outperform expectations too.
I think everyone, employers and employees get too caught up in requirements and forget that humans are very general purpose. And in particular, highly capable and intelligent humans can rapidly acquire skills.
In particular, if you are hiring someone for a potentially lengthy career, capacity for change seems incredibly more important than immediate skill.
Key problem is software engineers are generally bad at hiring. Hiring is a skillset of it's own. For example, you are technical writer for writing user facing docs, similarly I think it is specialized job where you use cognitive abilities to make a judgement, use psychology to see how the person will be in various situation.
I think everyone, employers and employees get too caught up in requirements and forget that humans are very general purpose. And in particular, highly capable and intelligent humans can rapidly acquire skills.
In particular, if you are hiring someone for a potentially lengthy career, capacity for change seems incredibly more important than immediate skill.