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Onboarding and dividing work between 100 engineers is hard. Makes me think of Brooks' law: "Adding human resources to a late software project makes it later." [
by otras 8y ago
Onboarding and dividing work between 100 engineers is hard. Makes me think of Brooks' law: "Adding human resources to a late software project makes it later." [0]
MyPinPad's careers page [1] lists four positions (Android developer, iOS developer, senior devops engineer, and services developer) with the same "salary up to £60,000 per annum, depending on experience" for each position. The higher salary makes for a good news article (and a good advertisement for their recruiting team), but I wonder if they could increase their application rate by showing the same salary as the one they advertised in the article.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
[1]: https://www.mypinpad.com/careers/ https://www.mypinpad.com/careers/
- nhkssol 8y agoBrooks' Law: "nine women can't make a baby in one month."
- flashgordon 8y agoWhen firing duds, no women will ever get pregnant!
- ericcholis 8y agoOn a similar note, putting "Pay based on experience" also limits your application pool. Tell people what you are willing START the pay rate at.
- BurningFrog 8y agoDepends on how your work and code base is organized. In my pair programming jobs, we've usually been able to onboard people to be fully productive in a few weeks.