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Skilled programmers being in demand and having options for employment for them sounds like a feature not a bug to me. What is wrong with the guy who has spent

by jiggy2011 13y ago

Skilled programmers being in demand and having options for employment for them sounds like a feature not a bug to me. What is wrong with the guy who has spent years of his life honing is craft demanding a fat salary? Programming seems to be one of the few professions where a junior employee is expected to turn up and be productive from day 1. If the programmers available don't have the skills you need, invest in training them or mentoring them. Offer attractive wages and get applications from all over the country. Talk to the colleges about your requirements and see if they can work that into the curricular. That eats into profits? Good, give the money to people with a higher propensity to consume and spread that love around.

iSnow 13y ago
>What is wrong with the guy who has spent years of his life honing is craft demanding a fat salary? He diminshes the profits and thereby leaves less to the suits.
- CleanedStar 13y ago
  You couldn't have hit the nail more on the head.
jacoblyles 13y ago
It is to the point that companies with fat piles of money can't grow, because they can't find competent people to give the money to. Yes, they do send out linkedin emails and take recruiting trips all over the country.
- georgemcbay 13y ago
  Sure they could, they just need to give out more money than they are willing to. There are some exceptions to this like a few people Google has famously granted money hats to (but even they were more on the management side than pure engineers), but start busting through the glass ceiling that sits at around $160k or so for experienced engineers and see if you can't hire some.
- jiggy2011 13y ago
  Then get creative and look beyond linkedin spam and traditional recruitment. I find it difficult to believe that there aren't enough unemployed/underemployed people out there with the aptitude to develop software. Lazy recruitment is not an excuse to increase immigration.

iSnow 13y ago

>What is wrong with the guy who has spent years of his life honing is craft demanding a fat salary? He diminshes the profits and thereby leaves less to the suits.

CleanedStar 13y ago
You couldn't have hit the nail more on the head.

jacoblyles 13y ago

It is to the point that companies with fat piles of money can't grow, because they can't find competent people to give the money to. Yes, they do send out linkedin emails and take recruiting trips all over the country.

georgemcbay 13y ago
Sure they could, they just need to give out more money than they are willing to. There are some exceptions to this like a few people Google has famously granted money hats to (but even they were more on the management side than pure engineers), but start busting through the glass ceiling that sits at around $160k or so for experienced engineers and see if you can't hire some.
jiggy2011 13y ago
Then get creative and look beyond linkedin spam and traditional recruitment. I find it difficult to believe that there aren't enough unemployed/underemployed people out there with the aptitude to develop software. Lazy recruitment is not an excuse to increase immigration.