I'm not quite sure which part you're reply to, but my best guess is the bit about trying to hire a contractor to do hardware upgrades. In that case, we were ba

I'm not quite sure which part you're reply to, but my best guess is the bit about trying to hire a contractor to do hardware upgrades. In that case, we were basically looking for interns; we were bringing people in who had relatively little experience. The guy we ended up hiring had no professional experience, and was looking to quit his job as a high school math teacher. He's worked out fantastically. If you're talking about the sysadmin position, we've mostly given up on bringing in anyone who knows the difference between their ass and an RST packet, and we're going to try hiring interns to train. If you're talking about the senior software engineering position, maybe you're suggesting that experienced software engineers are unwilling to go through a one-hour technical phone screen involving writing code? Maybe that's true; I don't know much about the earlier stages of that hiring effort.