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There are not nearly enough qualified and affordable senior level programmers in the country. We tried to hire them. Most candidates, that are senior on paper,
by rorrr 14y ago
There are not nearly enough qualified and affordable senior level programmers in the country. We tried to hire them. Most candidates, that are senior on paper, do suck, they can't solve even medium complexity problems.
Unless you have a crazy budget, you will spend a loooong time interviewing and going through one shitty candidate after another. We've interviewed close to 60 people, hired 3 (NYC). One of the 3 turned out to be a rat who delegated all the work to other developers, and had to be let go.
In cities like NYC or SF, you need a very high salary to attract true talent.
- dman 14y agoWhats the going rate for a competent senior dev in NYC/SF ?
- rorrr 14y ago$150-200K among my friends. Actually, there's no upper limit. We've seen some crazy examples: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/google-offers-staff-engineer-3-5-million-to-turn-down-facebook-offer/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/google-offers-staff-enginee...
- dsolomon 14y agoLOL If companies actually paid "$150-200K" there'd be an applicant line visible from space.
- ubernostrum 14y agoIn cities like NYC or SF, you need a very high salary to attract true talent. Worth pointing out that one of the big problems the industry has right now is the assumption that those are the only two places to put a tech company.