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It's nice of you to put your recruitment email at the bottom of the post, but the only message I'm getting from this post is that you needn't bother applying un
by bloat 14y ago
It's nice of you to put your recruitment email at the bottom of the post, but the only message I'm getting from this post is that you needn't bother applying until you're already a startup founder, or have written several books, or have a million downloaded app, or whatever the qualification is these days.
Is that really the message you want to send? "Hey, Almost Everybody! We're not interested in you!"
All the programmers who go to work everyday, do a damn good job, but don't follow it up with a daily blog post, or a screencast, or a brand new Haskell library. Are we not worth considering?
- chastened 14y agoAh, let the kids have their fun playing 'Company' with their Daddy's money. Stick with doing productive work, society needs you, and those of us who know what you do day in day out to keep the machines running, we thank you.
- will_work4tears 14y agoSeems to me mediocre or even merely competent is the new terrible.
- bloat 14y agoYes, and I'm not evening talking about mediocrity. I'm talking about excellent developers - people like me who've spent ten to twenty years developing high performance, high reliability apps that run in very demanding environments. These people would bring masses of skill and experience. Despite the OP's comment above this sort of hiring prioritises younger people who have time to do all the extra-curriculars, not the older developers with families and all sorts of other commitments.