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Hiring someone who doesn't work out is unbelievably expensive. It can be a disaster for your team. When we hire someone, we have no way of knowing if they'll b
by swimorsinka 9y ago
Hiring someone who doesn't work out is unbelievably expensive. It can be a disaster for your team.
When we hire someone, we have no way of knowing if they'll be the life-long learner type who will aggressively consume new knowledge and learn as much as they possibly can. In other words, we have no way of knowing if we can effectively train them, and it's crazy expensive if we can't.
We've tried to hire 1 or 2 of them as interns, but usually they're not interested in being interns.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoBut I don't think that trait would be discoverable in CS grads more often than boot camp grads. If it is, and you get a reliable source of candidates from CS grads, why not just filter on that and not bother with the time spent interviewing boot camp grads? And I'm not sure a couple of courses would change that in a person. That's distinctly out of the technical set of qualities.
- matty22 9y agoSounds like you guys should be hiring self-learners. If someone has taken multiples years of teaching themselves from scratch with no CS degree and no bootcamp attendence, they sound like the lifelong learner you guys are looking for. How often do you guys hire someone who is _neither_ a CS graduate nor a bootcamp graduate?