The only "problem" with that approach is that it invalidates most hand-wavy advice:
"Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler." All well and good if your requirements are written in formal logic or if there is only a single axis along which complexity can be measured.
"Hire only the best." What if the best only want to work with the best pay and the most interesting work? But "hire only the best of the very few who are willing to work on your projects for the kind of pay you're willing to offer, who will consider it a blessing that they were hired at 20% above your minimum starting salary with no other career avenues than management, and who are naive enough to think of options as valuable rather than lottery tickets" isn't quite as snappy or happy.
"Don't be evil." And since you have that slogan anything you do is by circular logic not evil. Handy.
"Hire only the best." What if the best only want to work with the best pay and the most interesting work?
That's the interesting question. The hard choice, that I rarely see discussed, is what to do when "the best" won't work for you. Do you hire the "perfectly adequate" or do you not hire and not do that thing you want "the best" person to work on.
one idea is to put your candidate out of their comfort zone and ask them to get their arms around something new. Try to figure out if they have a process for teaching and improving themself. Maybe if you can't hire the best you can find someone with the potential to be one of the best.
"Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler." All well and good if your requirements are written in formal logic or if there is only a single axis along which complexity can be measured.
"Hire only the best." What if the best only want to work with the best pay and the most interesting work? But "hire only the best of the very few who are willing to work on your projects for the kind of pay you're willing to offer, who will consider it a blessing that they were hired at 20% above your minimum starting salary with no other career avenues than management, and who are naive enough to think of options as valuable rather than lottery tickets" isn't quite as snappy or happy.
"Don't be evil." And since you have that slogan anything you do is by circular logic not evil. Handy.