On: We only hire the trendiest

[bjourne]

It's telling that in your list you never once mentioned "Actually possesses the technical skills required to do a good job."

[pklausler → bjourne]

Skills become obsolete. Aptitudes don't.

[grandalf → pklausler]

Exactly.

[ionforce → bjourne]

I just had this discussion at work... I think that it is implicit in this context that a minimum amount of technical ability be met. Otherwise we'd just be hiring "nice people". Obviously we don't do that.