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		fsk on May 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just Don't Hire 0x Engineers "Top 5 percentile" is more than 5 people. You can be in the top 5% of programmers without being world famous.

e12e on May 20, 2015 [–]

I'm hard pressed to pull the names of all top 5% programmers in the world out of a hat -- as an example. I was trying to illustrate how I might pick some candidates, and try to bucket some into "A-level".

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