Sure. No question about that at all. That's why companies reward employees who bring in new people and they get hired. That's difficult to control, though, tha

Sure. No question about that at all. That's why companies reward employees who bring in new people and they get hired. That's difficult to control, though, that's the problem. And especially if a company wants to hire 15 devs this quarter, who have the required skill set. If you have a small company with 5 devs, and it hires 1, maybe 2 new devs over the course of the year and there's no real time frame on finding a new dev, you only hire when you find a good person, well, that is a different scenario entirely. But like most things, that is only an ad hoc solution. What do you do, as the business owner asks the devs for referral and there are none? What do you do? You have to go to the open market. And as I wrote in my last post:"It's about the statistics over dozens of hiring decisions." So not just a hire here and there, but for a sytem. I work a lot with people in the trades - electricians, plumbers, dry wallers, insulation installers, etc. Man, you think there's a shortage in devs??? Nobody, but nobody, is going into the trades anymore. There's no one to hire, no one to refer.