> I distinctly remember the absolute best developers that I hired also had the most atrociously bad résumés. The candidates with résumés that literally almost knocked me off my chair failed miserably at the most basic programming task.

Comments like this make me wonder if one reason for the ridiculously high failure rate in programming interviews is that the resume screening stage is actually acting as a negative filter, that is disproportionately removing the candidates you want and passing the ones you don't.