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Discussion on: Will you hire a candidate who does not have a background in coding?

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In such a case, I believe that if you already have a successful product and a couple of other projects in your company with a decent development team, you can always open up an internship position (with pre-requisite of course no previous experience) so you can find an appropriate candidate.

There would be no pros to hiring IMO at the beginning but iDEs and programming languages are so advanced nowadays that anyone who is computer literate and at a level can be helpful depending on your environment.

Note: The candidate needs to be computer literate and at a good point though before hiring.