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Your HR strategy is already dead. Over-biased on the desire for the "senior/experienced developers". Meaning that your organization and the thousand others like
by rskar 12y ago
Your HR strategy is already dead. Over-biased on the desire for the "senior/experienced developers". Meaning that your organization and the thousand others like yours perpetually create this apparent "shortage," since all "senior/experienced" had to start as "new college & bootcamp grads". Since there are rather few moments where organizations are willing to take the chances on the "college & bootcamp" types, there will of course be fewer moments where future "senior/experienced" ones are sown.
- vonmoltke 12y agoHell, screw "college & bootcamp" types: how about engineers like me, who have 10 years of valuable but unconventional/niche experience? I can't get the time of day from any of these companies bitching and moaning about "shortages"[1] because I don't have the right buzzwords in my background. I'm right here, I'm willing to move almost anywhere for an embedded development position, and I'm being ignored. [1] I could be wrong on this; the companies I am trying to contact may not be the ones whining. Reading the conversation here and at /r/cscareerquestions though gives one the impression that this is a pervasive problem.
- morgante 12y ago> I'm willing to move almost anywhere for an embedded development position There's the problem. There just aren't that many people looking for embedded software developers. The companies complaining about a shortage are mostly building web & mobile software—if you were willing to consider that field, I'm sure more opportunities would open up.