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Whatever competitive advantage there might be, such secrecy also puts you at a recruiting disadvantage.
by brown9-2 8y ago
Whatever competitive advantage there might be, such secrecy also puts you at a recruiting disadvantage.
- badfrog 8y agoNot just recruiting, but there are all kinds of problems if your engineers can't have conversations about the language in public forums/meetups/etc and can't make contributions or even feature requests for the language and tools.
- sidlls 8y agoUsing languages and technologies that aren't relatively mainstream also puts the company at a recruiting disadvantage. It's trivial to have a full pipeline of candidates who are relatively inexpensive to hire and "good enough" within days of posting a bog-standard "Java services developer" job description.
- whitexn--g28h 8y agoI’ve been hiring spring boot developers, and on day one I just throw them the Phoenix guide and say “this is what we use here, learn or leave”