"But the first assumption alone is enough to prevent the developer job market from being a market for lemons. If you can tell that a potential employee is great, you can simply go and offer them twice as much as they're currently making (something that I've seen actually happen). You need an information asymmetry to create a market for lemons, and Joel posits that there's no information asymmetry."
Not necessarily. Suppose you can identify good developers after you have worked with them. Then, as in the used car model, lemons will be discarded ("resold") and good developers will be kept and driven.
Not necessarily. Suppose you can identify good developers after you have worked with them. Then, as in the used car model, lemons will be discarded ("resold") and good developers will be kept and driven.