&gt; The risk of choosing the wrong person is so great, that it&#x27;s often better to not choose anyone. If there is any doubt what-so-ever, it&#x27;s better to not make a a hire, it can be too damaging to a team, manager, company.<p>That&#x27;s bullshit. Sorry, but it is.<p>If it was such a big risk, companies would:<p>1) Do much better jobs at retaining employees (that are known to be good).<p>2) Be in a lot of trouble currently, because companies hire <i>all</i> the time and fire <i>all</i> the time.<p>If you&#x27;re having this problem you seriously need to reevaluate what you consider damaging. Hiring someone your team thinks is an idiot is not damaging.<p>Making your current team go home and talk to their roommate&#x2F;spouse&#x2F;so each night about how &quot;we really need to fucking hire someone, this is ridiculous&quot; while making your devs set through interviews is damaging :)