wtf, this is how people hire these days

On the one hand, experience isn't everything. For instance, I got this job despite having a terrible resume and only the word of a friend, and in less than three years, I was basically running the team. Meanwhile, the person hired at the same time as me had a perfectly tailored resume with decades of experience, and they were fired for incompetence in under three months.

So... I can't really disagree with this philosophy. On the other hand, I would really like to have someone on my team with a vague idea of what they're doing right at the start. I'm getting a little tired of training new people from the ground up.