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Ask HN: What skills are you hiring for but can't find qualified applicants for?
- aynyc 5y agoWe are looking for a developer with 20 years experience in GCP & Golang. We haven’t had much luck, the closest we found is a guy with 15 years in Golang and GCP.
- JustARandomGuy 5y agoYou forgot a /s I think I’ve been on GCP since Google App Engine was their first major product (2008ish I want to say? Maybe 2009) and that would only give me 14 years experience on GCP. Plus Go wasn’t originally supported on App Engine until much later.
- aynyc 5y agoWhile I'm joking, I got a few job postings like that. It was insane. And HR is complaining about not being able to hire people.
- MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago> HR is complaining about not being able to hire people Perhaps HR was complaining about not being able to hire those people for the $50k/yr + unlimited PTO budget that they have? because I can bet that if HR was willing to pay $500k+/yr + sensible PTO, a few of those GCP engineers right out of Google who literally wrote the first few lines of code for GAE might consider joining.
- matheweis 5y agoI’m assuming this is satire… Wasn’t Golang created in 2007?
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- aynyc 5y agoYea, same for GCP.
- snicky 5y agoWe are looking for a developer experienced in securing our whole stack: Rails backend, Vue frontend and infra on AWS. This kind of person isn't easy to find, because: - she has to have extensive knowledge about these frameworks - feel very confident configuring servers - follow the latest exploits - perform security reviews - audit dependencies and: - still be able to address vulnerabilities writing elegant code. I guess it's a lot to ask for, but we had a team mate in the past who did exactly this.
- MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago> we had a team mate in the past who did exactly this Did they die or move on to a better paying opportunity?
- rekabis 5y agoLikely the latter. Far too many employers are used to high job competition allowing them to pay only pennies on the dollar for that work. The moment people ask for rational and reasonable wages, it’s suddenly “No OnE WaNtS tO wOrK” because they’re wanting champagne work output on a horse piss beer salary.
- stillblue 5y ago>they’re wanting champagne work output on a horse piss beer salary Permission to steal this line?
- snicky 5y agoIn our case that's simply not true. The person I mentioned in the original post was the best paid developer in the company with a very competitive rate.
- MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago> was the best paid developer in the company with a very competitive rate OK, so did they die or move on to a better paying opportunity?