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Related, I've found that the term devops is too poisoned to be used effectively when hiring. It brings out charlatans in far greater numbers than anything else
by dpeck 9y ago
Related, I've found that the term devops is too poisoned to be used effectively when hiring. It brings out charlatans in far greater numbers than anything else at the moment. Garden variety technician level folks who self inflate their titles and roles to try to jump from 60k to 100k overnight.
It's been frustrating as they're able to get things syntactically correct for the most part that they get through early phone screening but absolutely fall apart once they reach someone with technical expertise, wasting everyone's times.
- boompowpow 9y agoSounds like you need a new/retooled hiring process
- matwood 9y agoDevops is less about knowing the syntax of something like Terraform and more about understanding, communicating, and implementing 'devops' best practices across an organization. The early phone screen should be an easy place to weed out people. I do agree that devops is the hot new title so people are jumping on it to try and make more money.
- dpeck 9y agoI mean syntax of the conversation. They're basically gaming the initial phone screenings and making us waste engineer time discovering that they don't really know anything. It's not exactly easy to get good filtering for this with first level screening but it's what we've had to do