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I don't understand this process at all. Top-tier devs are in high demand and can find positions at highly-desirable companies quite quickly and easily. What top
by iEchoic 12y ago
I don't understand this process at all. Top-tier devs are in high demand and can find positions at highly-desirable companies quite quickly and easily. What top-tier dev is going to spend 1-3 months of their time doing this when they can get a comparable position elsewhere without the hassle? This could likely be tens of thousands of dollars of lost salary. Seems like this process would serve only to filter their applicant pool to the most desperate.
I don't see anything ethically wrong with this, but I can't imagine why anyone would do it.
- Isofarro 12y agoTop-tier devs just give you skill and experience; that in itself doesn't give you passion. What you consider an act of desperation, DuckDuckGo sees as an act of passion and strong interest. If a skilled developer values his time more than his passion, perhaps that isn't a good fit for DuckDuckGo. Desperate people can apply, but they must be able to prove they have the technical capacity to deliver too. Which means they need to meet the calibre of developers who are in high demand, which means perhaps they aren't desperate? This process doesn't look much different to participating in an open source project in your own time, and then after your contributions have been assessed a decision/invitation extended to be part of the Core Team. Except that invitation is also an employment contract with a salary.
- nailer 12y agoYou're assuming the programmer is dispassionate in all things asides from Duck Duck Go work.