Ask HN: How do I convince management to hire better?

Ironically, I am part of said management but I feel like all other hiring managers ,around and above me, don't even know what "excellent" engineering talent looks like. Most of my peers are mainly concerns with deadlines and to meet deadlines they need bodies. Once they get said bodies, they complain about how little people on their teams seem to care, how they don't read the requirements, how they don't bother asking questions when they don't understand etc I don't claim to have cracked the hiring challenge but I do have some guiding principles which seems to work: * The candidate must demonstrate passion, curiosity and personal commitment to their craft. I.e. they take time to learn or practice their skills outside of work projects. They test their code not because the process says to do so but because they themselves have strong motivation to deliver a dependable product. * They are OCD. Not only do they need to know the how, but they need to under