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Very hard to find experienced Ruby devs in Vancouver, Canada. Have had open positions for months at my company with only junior people applying.
by poutine 15y ago
Very hard to find experienced Ruby devs in Vancouver, Canada. Have had open positions for months at my company with only junior people applying.
- hnwh 15y agoso train them
- rickmb 15y agoAs long as there's no decent form of vocational education, training in-house is a huge investment. You can only properly train one junior for every three to four seniors before it becomes disruptive. Many companies that have already made the mistake of hiring too many juniors in an attempt to deal with the shortage, and have suffered the consequences (huge drops in quality and productivity, and in the worst case, seeing the experienced seniors they did have walk away frustrated). Where education fails, major companies like Google and Facebook should take the responsibility for training juniors. Instead they spend their fortunes strip-mining the market.
- polyfractal 15y agoYeah! Google should start firing their top talent every five years too so the rest of the tech industry has a chance to hire them. Because that makes about as much business sense.
- rwolf 15y agoAs a junior developer at a major company, it sure feels like I'm receiving training. Since major companies are hiring both junior and senior developers, are you suggesting they stop hiring senior developers?
- khafra 15y agoHow much are you offering? I know an experienced ruby dev in New Orleans who'd be reluctant to relocate, but everybody has a price.
- muzz 15y agoFree market economics tells us that price is the variable that moves so that supply and demand intersect. I.e. it sounds like you are simply not paying enough.