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Discussion on: Can you be overqualified as a software developer? How would that look like and what would you do against it?

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Ben Halpern

I think over-qualification is mostly about attitude. If we hired Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, to write code for our app, he'd probably be pretty over-qualified for the job. But if he genuinely wanted to contribute and do that job, it's not a problem.

When we're hiring for software development positions, we don't want anyone who feels overqualified such that they should just be managing, and not in there writing the code. If we are looking for a developer we're looking for a willingness to write some code.