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Exactly. People who are good are always going to be referrals, once they've worked at a few places, their networks are just not going to let them get away. Th
by jmchuster 6y ago
Exactly. People who are good are always going to be referrals, once they've worked at a few places, their networks are just not going to let them get away. The only times I've found where you are interviewing someone experienced who turns out good is
1) someone coming from a big corporate job where they were undervalued/underutilized
2) someone coming from a different region, different country, where they have no local network
- protomyth 6y agoExactly. People who are good are always going to be referrals Only inside a community, not coming from outside.
- ryandrake 6y agoAlso, referrals still have to go through interviews, so it's not really unusual to interview someone who is senior and skilled.
- jmchuster 6y agoRight, and that's why we still source and recruit, to pull in people from outside of our community. It just has a much lower hit rate.
- graeme 6y agoThat’s not true. You can have people who are in multiple communities refer in someone from outside. I’ve had it happen to me and done it for others.
- protomyth 6y agoIts the old boys club. You do realize there are tons of programmers in just the US that have no contacts with the coasts? This is what makes the Ivy League so valuable which is very good at discriminating over large groups of people. My favorite is businesses and colleges that don't take applicants from PO Boxes.