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Just a slightly different angle. The best managers and team builders are people that aren't afraid to get people in with skills far out pacing their own. Maybe some one can program this task better than you but the company has trust in you to find those people and put them in the best environment to leaverage that skill. The best skill you can have is using other people's skills together. No body wants a manager who can only program. They want a leader and some one who is knowledgeable in their peticular code base. A programming test shows they can program but doesn't mean they'll have the years of knowledge of your code base that you do
This is the most important thing when hiring. If staff only hire new employees that are less experienced/talented than themselves then the skill level of the team reduces over time. If you give hiring staff the target of finding someone better than they are, the skill of the team increases over time.