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I've spent alot of time thinking about this, and I've concluded with this: Hire local people minimum wage to learn and teach each other coding structured aroun
by yjhoney 8y ago
I've spent alot of time thinking about this, and I've concluded with this:
Hire local people minimum wage to learn and teach each other coding structured around your company's codebase. Once they get to know the basics, have them work on your company's open source projects. Identify the ones who actively help others and convert them as a full time software engineer.
It takes an average person about 1 year to learn enough basics to contribute to a codebase, and paying someone minimum wage only costs about 30k / year so it works out financially on both sides.
- didlydoo 8y agoFor reference, this only works in places where the minimum wage is also a reasonable amount. In the UK, the minimum wage is laughably poor and in Switzerland it's significantly below the amount needed to live. A better threshold would be to look at the cost of living _in the area_ and pay a reasonable starting wage that actually lets people live there comfortably.
- sethammons 8y agoWhat about senior developers? Missing them, I'd be very worried about the code being built at the company.