Everyone would love to hire Linus Torvalds for that matter
Torvalds is very lucky to have found his niche because he is unemployable - the first sweary rant at a teammate and he'd be shown the door. Well except maybe at Uber.
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
by maus42 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:05PM
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I suspect you've got the cause and effect backwards. More likely, because he found that niche where he does not have to learn to moderate, he does not.
That's like the old advice that you should always watch how your date treats the waiter...
I would not hire Linus Torvalds. For all his technical capability (which I've followed as a linux and git user for some 25 years now) many of his externally visible statements are not acceptable for any modern workplace (this has been discussed a number of times, I know people have differing opinions, but if Torvalds worked at a modern corporation with a real HR department, his words would get him in trouble.)
"How do we satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources?" - economics to the rescue again.
Everyone would love to hire Linus Torvalds for that matter, but there are plenty of programming jobs where you don't really need to, or don't want to, or can't spend that kind of money. There are plenty of useful, productive positions for people who aren't up on their O notation. The important thing is to be clear what kind of person you're looking for.