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What are you trying to recruit for and how much are you willing to pay?
by ownagefool 11y ago
What 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 :)