The willingness to hire "unqualified" people directly depends on how expensive bad hires can be.
For example, if your product is a static website (no database), and you are using version control, the worst thing bad software engineer can do is to bring the website down for a few hours. So by all means do hire people without the right technical skills, and see how well they do.
On the other end of spectrum, there are industrial controllers which controls huge factories and where many mistakes can cause loss of productivity on the entire floor and/or multi-million-$ machine physically breaking. And those systems frequently have no version control nor any sort of tests. You really don't want anyone without relevant experience touching those.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 10.6 ms ] threadFor example, if your product is a static website (no database), and you are using version control, the worst thing bad software engineer can do is to bring the website down for a few hours. So by all means do hire people without the right technical skills, and see how well they do.
On the other end of spectrum, there are industrial controllers which controls huge factories and where many mistakes can cause loss of productivity on the entire floor and/or multi-million-$ machine physically breaking. And those systems frequently have no version control nor any sort of tests. You really don't want anyone without relevant experience touching those.