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Source: Have been a hiring manager. Currently I help hiring managers with this problem. The biggest issue I see again and again is time. Hiring good people is
by Peroni 11y ago
Source: Have been a hiring manager. Currently I help hiring managers with this problem.
The biggest issue I see again and again is time. Hiring good people is hard. Hiring good people fast is really hard. Hiring lots of good people fast is really fucking hard.
Ultimately it takes a huge amount of time to source, filter, screen, interview and hire good people. A lot of early stage founders complain that hiring ends up being their biggest time sink. As a result, right now in London (UK) there's an enormous demand for internal talent people to come on board and take over that responsibility as external agencies are an inefficient and expensive solution.
Putting time to one side, my biggest issue is not so much the finding, screening or interviewing part, it's the engagement part. Give me a job brief, a short chat with the engineering lead and a couple of hours in front of my laptop and I'll create a significant list of potentially appropriate candidates. even if the engineering lead reduces that list by half, convincing those people to have a conversation is an incredibly difficult thing as the majority of 'good' engineers are already in work and know that there is a world of opportunities out there if they could be bothered to look so why should they care about you and your random opportunity?
- djb_hackernews 11y agoIt's not hard. * Advertise your above market rates * Advertise your generous referral bonus system * Be very clear about the role (responsibilities, domain, org structure, etc) * Poach from the pool of employees from respected, established companies. Ideally with 2+ years (they've basically done the vetting for you, and you know they've survived at least 2 review cycles) * Avoid long drawn out interviews, any in person interviews should be treated like a final sanity check before an offer, like management interviews are.
- debacle 11y agoPublishing rates? Above market rates? Our salaries are competitive. We can't tell you what they are, but they're competitive. Please interview with us. /s
- codegeek 11y agoDid I forget to mention that we have "excellent benefits and perks" /s
- mrits 11y agoI like the idea of advertising the actual salary. The rest of your points makes me believe you have either been lucky or haven't actually had a lot of success in this approach. Not getting fired at a company for 2 years is an extremely easy thing to do and means almost nothing. To the contrary I've hired some extremely talented people that have previously fired just a couple months on the job. Quite honestly, saying recruiting is not hard makes me think you are just not very intelligent.
- ceekay 11y agoEngineers respond to engineers / engineering leaders - https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/finding-good-engineers-isn-t-hard-3ab47528b5aa#.k91j5wpql https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/finding-good-engineers-isn-t...