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Have you ever hired in tech ? Good engineers are hard to find, that’s the reason companies pay for their stuff and family to move across the world.
by thatfrenchguy 7y ago
Have you ever hired in tech ? Good engineers are hard to find, that’s the reason companies pay for their stuff and family to move across the world.
- achingtooth 7y agoYeah I have, I started my own company about a year ago. I hired my first employee 2 months ago. Edit: Go ahead and down vote me, can't change the truth!
- mciancia 7y agoWow, just hired first employee. You really must have a _lot_ of experience in sourcing engineers then, right?
- achingtooth 7y agoHe asked a question and I answered. He never asked how much experience.
- benologist 7y agoDo you know why good engineers are so hard to find? Because we invented millions of arbitrary reasons to disqualify a "not-best" engineer like their coding syntax, the editor they use, stack they aren't familiar with etc. It's gatekeeping, the people on the inside are learning on the job and googling instead of constantly cramming for an algorithm test. Three weeks ago none of you knew the new framework you're now using. The successful candidate will be neck-deep in your bugs for a long time.
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- scarface74 7y agoMost companies just think they need “good engineers”. Most software development jobs don’t involve doing anymore than yet another software as a service CRUD app or yet another bespoke internal app. But yet and still, even if all they need is a bog standard React developer they still want someone who spent hours studying leetCode so they can reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard.