What makes a competent programmer?

Ever wondered how to tell if you are hiring a competent programmer?  In the following video Ron Burk discusses the Psychology of Incompetence in which he leaves you with no illusions.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization

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