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It's not hard finding people; it's hard finding quality people because they've all moved to London for the salary or are self-employed. When I say quality, I m
by allegory 12y ago
It's not hard finding people; it's hard finding quality people because they've all moved to London for the salary or are self-employed.
When I say quality, I mean people who can pick up anything we throw at them and pick the right tech for the job rather than be tied to a tech platform, not Joe average ASP.Net webforms or Kate average Oracle monkey.
We need people who pick the tools for the job, not factory pressed programmers.
Also have you tried hiring anyone anywhere in the UK that can actually write C? Totally damn impossible even offering £120k.
- justincormack 12y agoThey do exist. The finding people process is very broken. Can guarantee there will be quite a few C programmers at the conference I am organizing http://operatingsystems.io/ http://operatingsystems.io/
- Nursie 12y agoWell if you need a C contractor and my general level of snark hasn't put you off, in this thread or others on HN, feel free to get in touch with david.hicks@starnose.net I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I have been pretty shocked at the standards I've encountered since I left big blue and decided to go it alone a few years back.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI know a few people who write very good C and they all live outside London. Only one of them makes anything near £120k though.