The programming talent myth

The talent level of people may be distributed by a normal distribution, the value created by the people might not. I did see people creating negative value (management insisted on hiring from a specific company, the coders they've sent were so lousy that we practically had to assign someone to fix their code, so in the end we were having less resources), also did see people creating as much value as other 10. The recruiters are obviously looking for the later type.