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> Someone with a BS just out of college? > An engineer with 10 years of matching experience? > Tech lead wo [sic] just built X elsewhere? Sounds like you hav

• ptero 10y ago
  Some of the reasons below are somewhat artificial constraints, but that's just our environment. I suspect they are not that infrequent either. We cannot post three postings with intent to hire one person: Our group works on X. There is a group working on Y across the hall (and a bunch of others) and if we advertise three postings they will go to top management and HR and argue that one of our postings should be theirs. Competition between groups on lab space, office space and good employees is friendly but extremely tough. Hiring someone who is a good fit and will likely work in our group for at least a few years is a huge benefit. Thus we would rather spend extra time trying to find a person who is smart, likes what we do and is genuinely interested in working on X, at whatever experience level, and snag him. This makes us open the "skills" window pretty wide.
  • ones_and_zeros 10y ago
    It also makes it very easy to suppress wages... It sounds like an unappealing place to work and I think you've put yourself in the market for lemons. Low paid lemons. You know the easiest way to find smart and interested people? Pay above market wages and advertise it. You'll have your pick.
  • inanutshellus 10y ago
    Your internal open positions need not match your external open positions. We all get that you really are saying "salary is dependent upon experience". The argument made above is simply that each of those ranges ought to be called out explicitly.