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If you can do this reliably, you should start a business. Common knowledge is that hiring programmers is insanely difficult. If you have a gift for it, you cou
by aboodman 15y ago
If you can do this reliably, you should start a business.
Common knowledge is that hiring programmers is insanely difficult. If you have a gift for it, you could make craptonnes of money!
- silverbax88 15y agoI did start a business. But I should state that I learned how to interview and hire for years working for other people.
- sliverstorm 15y agoYour parent probably means you should start a business of helping other people hire good programmers.
- silverbax88 15y agoI did. It does quite well. But I am no longer involved in it day-to-day.
- kenjackson 15y agoHiring people who know how to program is actually not hard. I also can screen for this in an hour, no problem. It's everything else that is the problem. Are they lazy? Do disappear for days at a time? Will they not fix bugs in someone else's code? Will they complain NIH at the drop of a hat. Will they care to write all the ugly code we need to ship with, and not just the first 80% of the project? These are the things that are hard to assess. But just knowing if they can code -- that's pretty easy.
- droithomme 15y agoI've never had a problem hiring great programmers, and it's not difficult at all really. It's insanely difficult though for common companies when they are not a good or interesting place to work, or they don't want to pay competitively for the people they need, or they have incorrect ideas about what sort of talent they really need. There is no shortage of great developers out there. The shortage is in companies that have management with any clue. These companies obviously are unable to understand or correct this though.
- vetler 15y agoIn my experience, hiring programmers is difficult because it's difficult to find the right people ... but once they're in a room with you, it's easy.