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Not defending it, but when you and your fellow engineers are spending a majority of the time interviewing instead of programming, such a system is certainly tem
by superuser2 10y ago
Not defending it, but when you and your fellow engineers are spending a majority of the time interviewing instead of programming, such a system is certainly tempting.
- brianwawok 10y agoOh I agree. I think if an engineer has to spend over 2-4h a week interviewing long term you are spending too much time on hiring. A little break to talk to humans is good. Shouldn't be your main job, unless you work in HR or something...
- wyldfire 10y agoMaybe that problem only impacts productivity significantly when attrition is high (suggesting that the problem might be with talent retention and not engineering effort spent on interviewing)?
- superuser2 10y agoPerhaps Amazon has an attrition problem - at the company I'm talking about, it's just extremely rapid growth.
- ex_amazon_sde 10y agoThe attrition problem is well known.
- twistedpair 10y agoHave you tried hiring dev's lately? It's a employee's market. We've made offers to a half dozen people in the last 4mo only to be beaten out by other firms. One guy who turned us down had 12 offers. Sure, you can compromise and take lower quality people, or pay more than anyone in your city, but if you want great people for top 20% of the market pay, it's a lot of work on the hiring side.
- brianwawok 10y agoPay more or work remote. You are likely limiting yourself to a tiny Geo area. No reason in 2016 we all need to sit in traffic to commute to work.