As an technical interviewer in a startup (50 people with like 20 devs), I think the culture fit and communication skills are more important than the pure technical skills.
Multiple times we rejected strong senior devs because of that. It could be things like:
- language issues eg. we have to repeat questions multiple times
- bad team players eg. they feel close minded, they seem judgemental
On the other hand, we recruited juniors who were not great technically but who had a positive mindset and the potential to grow. And I think they were the best people we hired.
I believe perfs of previous versions are worse because providers reallocate resources to newer versions. Also because of training data cut-off to previous years.
This is what happened between claude sonnet 3.5 and 3.7.
Personally I only use Claude/Anthropic and ignore other providers because I understand it the more. It's smart enough, I rarely need the latest greatest.
Multiple times we rejected strong senior devs because of that. It could be things like: - language issues eg. we have to repeat questions multiple times - bad team players eg. they feel close minded, they seem judgemental
On the other hand, we recruited juniors who were not great technically but who had a positive mindset and the potential to grow. And I think they were the best people we hired.