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Streamline your hiring process so it's not so expensive. We talk about agile software and fast iteration all the time, but we don't apply it to employees. It sh

Streamline your hiring process so it's not so expensive. We talk about agile software and fast iteration all the time, but we don't apply it to employees. It shouldn't be so expensive to decrease the level of filtering on incoming resumes, try more people out, and get rid of the ones that don't work out. Otherwise, the alternative is to create ridiculous criteria that doesn't even describe a good employee for your situation. Instead of being productive in a company, I'm off developing a me-too open source project just to even get a chance of getting hired to a decent position. This is infuriatingly frustrating from the point of view of someone who is a great developer but enjoys things other than programming.

vailripper 15y ago
The difficulty is that bad developers aren't just inefficient, they can do extensive damage to your project quickly, while also costing you a great deal of money. Paying a developer 4k to write code you have a scrap, while tying up your good developers while they struggle through basic problems. The challenge is coming up with good criteria to evaluate people on. I feel your pain that oftentimes the criteria has nothing to do with the actual job, but in large part it's a signal that the company isn't worth working for if they don't know what they want.