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Its basically a sign of the balance of supply and demand shifting I think, and particularly a large influx of new opportunists who jumped into programming for t
by zaptheimpaler 8y ago
Its basically a sign of the balance of supply and demand shifting I think, and particularly a large influx of new opportunists who jumped into programming for the money but might not have the aptitude or motivation.
Companies are very, very risk-averse in hiring and they don't want to get stuck with one of those types. They overestimate the short-term risk of making a bad hire and underestimate the long-term risk of not moving fast enough or hiring enough.
Even from a purely cover-your-ass perspective, a manager who makes a bad hire will likely be blamed for not screening candidates well enough, but a manager who fails to hire enough can easily point to the "talent shortage". No one ever got fired for choosing AWS, and no one ever got fired for hiring an ex-Googler :)
- owens99 8y ago> Companies are very, very risk-averse in hiring and they don't want to get stuck with one of those types. They overestimate the short-term risk of making a bad hire and underestimate the long-term risk of not moving fast enough or hiring enough. Actually, a bad hire is a long-term risk. Very hard to fire fast.
- owens99 8y ago> Companies are very, very risk-averse in hiring and they don't want to get stuck with one of those types. They overestimate the short-term risk of making a bad hire and underestimate the long-term risk of not moving fast enough or hiring enough. Actually, a bad hire is a long-term risk. It’s hard to fire fast and bad hires add up. B players hire C players, as the saying goes.