Comments by "George Helyar" (@georgehelyar) on "The BEST and WORST Places To Work For Developers" video.

Lots of places do need to improve the way they conduct interviews to be more of a conversation that is related to real work rather than an algorithms exam, and silos of knowledge can be a problem, but I don't think mass hiring contractors is the answer. I realise you may be biased, but I find that contractors tend to be overpaid and write untestable and unmaintainable code, and then leave before it all goes wrong, thinking they did an amazing job. Bodge it and scarper. Of course this is a sweeping generalisation and I'm sure there are some good contractors out there somewhere, this is just what I've seen in general.
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