Actually, for the company that I worked at, and the level of folks we hired, I often heard about how they went.

The only one that made me sad, was a chap who used to show up on the Adobe Photoshop splash page. We offered, he declined.

In the aggregate, I think things turned out OK for all of us. There are some folks that I have to admit, probably did best by not accepting us.

>There are some folks that I have to admit, probably did best by not accepting us.

Yeah, I hear that. I remember interviewing someone who was _good_, but not at this narrow thing that we were hiring for. She seemed SO hopeful that we would give her an offer, I wanted to tell her directly "this job is going to waste 6 mo of your life and offer you nothing I return"

My most fond recollection was a young chap that was a "second choice." The first declined, and this guy had very little of the exact skills we needed, but he had a real eagerness.

He turned out to be an amazing hire. I think that he far outstripped the first choice, and he has gone on to do quite well, after leaving our company.

I like to think that I ran a fairly good shop. We kept people for decades.

When they finally rolled up our shop (after 27 years), the person with the least seniority had ten years.