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FFS. I think they have no idea how few people we can get locally in London who don't need a visa...
by blackbeard 11y ago
FFS. I think they have no idea how few people we can get locally in London who don't need a visa...
- ownagefool 11y agoWhat are you trying to recruit for and how much are you willing to pay?
- blackbeard 11y ago.Net 50-60k. We have a billion applicants but they're all shit.
- chrisseaton 11y agoAre they so bad that they can't implement fizz-buzz, or are they ok programmers but not good enough in your specific field, or something between those two?
- blackbeard 11y agoMostly that bad or worse at the moment. I think we've got around a 1-2% hit rate through agents and job sites. Despite being finance sector, we don't expect any qualifications or finance experience, just people who know their shit. We do a "pin the data structure on the problem" thing. Even people with fair amounts of experience rarely know the difference between a list, a set and a dictionary. Some guy, supposedly a technical architect, just sat there and smiled awkwardly through the questions and didn't answer them. It's actually quite depressing until you realise you could probably walk out and can another £30k because you can actually do this stuff.
- chrisseaton 11y agoThis amazes me. £60k in London is not too bad - I would have thought you could have attracted someone who can program with that.
- blackbeard 11y agoI don't think what we do is very interesting so it only attracts people who are shit or weird. I fit into the latter category :)