Hiring (Superstar) Programmers 570
Ross Turk wrote, "We've been looking for senior engineers to work on SourceForge.net for a while now, and it's been a lot more difficult than it was a few years ago. Has the tech market improved so much that working on a prominent website is no longer enough to attract the best talent? Is everyone else running into the same problems, or is it just here in the Valley and other high-tech corridors?" This is a question that I've seen coming in a lot; the economy has not picked up everywhere — so how are other people handling this? Going outside the traditional Valley/Route 128 corridors? Outsourcing? And how do you find people — beyond just using job boards? (Full disclosure: That's our job board thingie, as you probably have figured out.) Or do job boards alone work? Some people have been swearing up and down that CraigsList works — and there's always something to be said for nepotism.
O RLY? (Score:4, Funny)
Same Problem (Score:5, Funny)
In my personal opinion... (Score:4, Funny)
The reason you're having problems attracting good candidates is that sign in the hallway leading to the interviewer's office. It reads:
ATTENTION:
Beatings will continue
until morale improves.
Thank you.
The Management
* * * * *
A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink.
--W.C. Fields
Engineers ? (Score:4, Funny)
On the link:
Since when are Java Developers "Engineers"?
Re:Just post it to slashdot! (Score:4, Funny)
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Wow! Sourceforge?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Very clever /. (Score:3, Funny)
1. Need tech help
2. Run SysAdmin nomination story
3. Harvest talent
4. PROFIT!!!!
Actually what makes this funny is that sysadminoftehyear is
Dilbert covered this (of course) (Score:5, Funny)
The PHB acknowledged the point, saying that they were looking for the bright but clueless set.
Re:Hubris! (Score:2, Funny)
You must have missed the memo... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:All the smart people have left IT (Score:3, Funny)
Reason being, as an application developer, I've not seen a lot of the crap you describe (well, more rather, I'm the one with the hammer breaking all the mice for you to fix). There is crap as an app dev, but it's more along the lines of unrealistic schedules, dumb PHBs that still think spiral development is the wave of the future, and unrealistic expectations. If you can cut through that crap, then it's smooth sailing through the shit sandwich
I'm an American. Your laws and logic do not apply to me here.