> 1. What is your willingness to consider a candidate who does not match 100% of your requirements?
I'm not the person you were responding to, but in my experience most of the candidates aren't even close.
You post a staff position and get dozens of college graduates.
You post a job requiring some C++ or Rust and you'll get 50 people who haven't written anything other than Ruby on Rails or Python.
I'm always open to impressive candidates who don't have exactly the right skills yet, but the majority of the spam applications can't even show that they're impressive candidates. They're just spamming the same resume to every job they see.
I'm not the person you were responding to, but in my experience most of the candidates aren't even close.
You post a staff position and get dozens of college graduates.
You post a job requiring some C++ or Rust and you'll get 50 people who haven't written anything other than Ruby on Rails or Python.
I'm always open to impressive candidates who don't have exactly the right skills yet, but the majority of the spam applications can't even show that they're impressive candidates. They're just spamming the same resume to every job they see.