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For general roles, it's a question of how much you are willing to invest in a candidate before he/she starts producing. Big firms like Google/MS/Amazon are wil
by 727374 13y ago
For general roles, it's a question of how much you are willing to invest in a candidate before he/she starts producing. Big firms like Google/MS/Amazon are willing to hire strong candidates who aren't familiar with a given stack. A young startup might (understandably) not be able to pay someone for a few months to ramp up on a stack that's not familiar to the candidate.
- gaius 13y agoThat is subtly wrong, because there are really two things there: there is the language itself, and there is what has already been built with it. Say you get a really strong Perl guy, but you use Python. At a startup, he just has to learn the language. At a big company, he has to learn the language and the last decade's worth of codebase.
- 727374 13y agoYou are missing the point - startups don't always have the time/money to train someone in a new language. That's why they are looking for Javascript Ninjas who can hit the ground running. Established firms inherently have money to invest in training if they choose to.
- georgemcbay 13y agoIf you have hired the right person they will very quickly "train" themselves and the only cost to you will be a slightly slower start (which will resolve itself in days to a couple of weeks max) at producing real code. Well worth it if the alternative is hiring someone who knows the language/framework you're working in, but pretty much only knows that language/framework.