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> But then, we hired for people who were hungry to learn and create. Less graduate programmers thinking they knew it all, more college dropouts who loved coding
by kodablah 8y ago
> But then, we hired for people who were hungry to learn and create. Less graduate programmers thinking they knew it all, more college dropouts who loved coding but couldn't stand academia.
I think when people say they can't find good devs, it's not that they are only looking for seniors, it's that they can't find the eager ones you are talking about either. Amongst the realm of juniors, they are quite rare in my experience.
- falcolas 8y agoPerhaps they're just not making it past the filters. Have a look at the ratio of people interviewed to the number of applications filed. If it's particularly low, it's likely a case of a lot of false positives on the filters before the interview.
- marcus_holmes 8y agothis. The really great people we found were an absolute no-hope if you just looked at their CV. One of our best database folks was recruited into the company as a data entry staffer, and we only found out that they knew SQL from some breaktime chats. They were so unconfident about their skills that they didn't think they should/could apply for a dev position.