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You don't have to intentionally search for mediocre devs. They're everywhere. Good devs will probably not even apply to your mediocre company. But if one does a
by billytetrud 5y ago
You don't have to intentionally search for mediocre devs. They're everywhere. Good devs will probably not even apply to your mediocre company. But if one does actually want to work for it, you damn well better let them. Better to spend your time figuring out how to make your company better than how to keep food devs from "making the mistake" of working for you.
- sanitycheck 5y agoYou're right, you don't have to intentionally search for them. But you can be honest with candidates at the interview stage, rather than promising an amazing work environment, cutting edge tech and fascinating world changing projects - ensuring disappointment when first task is to migrate a CRUD app to a newer version of PHP. Also a reasonable strategy for dating, I suppose.
- buitreVirtual 5y agoMakes sense, assuming that the crappy company does want to be better. Most of them are not serious about it though.
- georgeecollins 5y agoEvery place I have ever worked has had some developers who were not amazing. The problem is places that insist that everyone they hire is a superstar, that's usually a drink the koolaid situation.
- jinksi 5y agoHow do you know if you’re a good dev or a mediocre dev?
- billytetrud 5y agoHopefully your interview process weeds out most of them. Beyond that, companies should be evaluating their devs in the first 3 months. After that length of time you can really know pretty well how good they are at what you want them to be doing.