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>The question is: why are people hiring hundreds of weak programmers in the first place? When a team of 100 mediocrities achieves as much as a (far less costly)
by tsotha 15y ago
>The question is: why are people hiring hundreds of weak programmers in the first place? When a team of 100 mediocrities achieves as much as a (far less costly) team of 20 good programmers in Java or (better yet) 6 good programmers in a decent language, why hire the former at all?
Because 90% of the people are in the bottom 90%. Not every company can hire programmers in the top 10%. That's a mathematical impossibility. Yes, we'd all love to hire only geniuses, but what do you do when you put out a job req and no geniuses apply? Refuse to hire anyone?
- michaelochurch 15y agoYes, we'd all love to hire only geniuses, but what do you do when you put out a job req and no geniuses apply? Refuse to hire anyone? Easiest: upgrade your language. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/how-any-software-company-can-cross-the-developer-divide/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/how-any-softw... Harder: expand your "social surface area" by going to conferences, because the best programmers find jobs (just as the best jobs are filled) through social connections before anything is "posted". You actually have to network a lot harder when you're hiring than when you're looking for a job.