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Supply and demand. If you're having trouble finding people with what you're offering, raise your offer.

• fhars 16y ago
  But that raises the false positive rate of unqualified applicants that are only in it for the money. Given that such a programmer may have net negative productivity, underpaying qualified developers migth even be beneficial for the employers, as they can be sure that the remaining pool of applicants will only contain persons with a qualification level commensurate with the offered wages (which can easily be filtered out) and people passionate about programming. They may loose some of the best that way, but they loose all of the duds, too. </cynic>
  • brown9-2 16y ago
    I'm not sure I'm following this line of argument but if they're intentionally keeping what they're offering low, they lose the right to complain that they can't find good enough candidates. Besides the company on the article already claims to be able to seperate duds from stars. "What you're offering" includes more than just money as well n